Professor Nevill Francis Mott, c mid-20th century

Nevill Mott, born 30 September 1905, died 8 August 1996, was a British physicist. Mott is known for winning the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1977 for his work on the electronic structure of magnetic and disordered structures. Mott studied at St. John's College, Cambridge, where he studied mathematics. Mott then worked as a lecturer at the University of Manchester, before returning to Cambridge as a Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, and then worked at the University of Bristol. During WWII, Mott was a radar researcher. Mott was Cavendish Professor of Physics in Cambridge between 1954 to 1971. Mott married Ruth Eleanor Horder, and had two daughters. Mott died in 1996, aged 90. Mott had been awarded as a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1936, for which he served as President in 1957, and he was knighted in 1962.