Quote of the day
If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.
Nevill Francis Mott
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:
- Conduction in non-crystalline materials (1987)
- Metal-insulator Transitions (1974)
- A life in science (1986)