Sir Nevill Francis Mott, CH, FRS (30 September 1905 – 8 August 1996) 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, who had pursued independent research. In 1981 his Nobel Award winning discovery was disproved by Gordon Thomas, T.F. Rosenbaum, K. Andres, and R.N. Bhatt, American physicists.
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