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Neither physical science nor psychology can ever 'explain' human consciousness. To me then, human consciousness lies outside science, and it is here that I seek the relationship between God and man.

Nevill Francis Mott

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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
Werner Heisenberg

Nevill Francis Mott

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Born: September 30, 1905
Died: August 8, 1996 (aged 90)
Bio: Sir Nevill Francis Mott was an English physicist who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1977 for his work on the electronic structure of magnetic and disordered systems, especially amorphous semiconductors. The award was shared with Philip W. Anderson and J. H. Van Vleck.
Known for:
  1. Conduction in non-crystalline materials (1987)
  2. Metal-insulator Transitions (1974)
  3. A life in science (1986)

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