A Life In ScienceCRC Press, 1995 M12 1 - 198 páginas The late Sir Nevill Mott was one of Britain's greatest ever and most admired scientists. A physicist of great repute he was Britain's last Nobel Prize winner for Physics. This landmark book, published to celebrate Mott's 90th Birthday in 1995, explores the life and work of one of our best physicists. |
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CHAPTER ONE Parentage and childhood | 1 |
CHAPTER TWO School | 4 |
CHAPTER THREE Cambridge 192427 | 7 |
CHAPTER FOUR First Research | 14 |
CHAPTER FIVE Copenhagen 1928 | 18 |
CHAPTER SIX Cambridge and Göttingen 1929 | 23 |
CHAPTER SEVEN Manchester 192930 | 27 |
CHAPTER EIGHT Cambridge 193033 | 30 |
CHAPTER SIXTEEN Noncrystalline Semiconductors | 94 |
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN The Nobel Prize for Physics 1977 | 98 |
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN Honorary Degrees | 102 |
CHAPTER NINETEEN Taylor Francis | 105 |
CHAPTER TWENTY Talented Children | 107 |
CHAPTER TWENTY ONE AntiConcorde | 108 |
CHAPTER TWENTY TWO Religion | 110 |
CHAPTER TWENTY THREE Looking Back | 116 |
CHAPTER NINE Bristol 193339 | 35 |
CHAPTER TEN The War 193945 | 44 |
CHAPTER ELEVEN Bristol 194554 | 52 |
CHAPTER TWELVE Invitation to Cambridge | 70 |
CHAPTER THIRTEEN Cavendish Professor 195471 | 73 |
CHAPTER FOURTEEN Some Research up to 1960 | 83 |
CHAPTER FIFTEEN Master of Caius 195966 | 88 |
APPENDIX ONE Science and Modern Languages | 119 |
APPENDIX TWO Gifted Children And Their Contemporaries | 125 |
APPENDIX 3 Adddress in Great St Marys Church Cambridge 1957 | 128 |
APPENDIX 4 Rocking the Cradle of Britains Nobel prize babies | 135 |
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