Nevill Mott: Reminiscences And Appreciations

E. A. Davis0748407901

Sir Nevill Mott was Britain’s last Winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics. This is a tribute to the life and work of Nobel Laureate Nevill Mott, a hugely admired and appreciated man, and one of this countries greatest ever scientists. It includes contributions from over 80 of his friends, family and colleagues, full of anecdotes and appreciations for this colossus of modern physics.

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Table of contents :
Book Cover……Page 1
Title……Page 4
Contents……Page 5
Preface……Page 12
Introduction……Page 13
List of contributors……Page 26
Chronology of Nevill Mott’s life and work……Page 29
A happy childhood……Page 34
Cambridge and Manchester 1924 1933……Page 38
Memories of Nevill and his Bristol Team……Page 41
Bristol: first years……Page 45
Early days……Page 49
A miraculous escape……Page 53
Nevill: family friend……Page 59
Bristol 1938: memories of a research student……Page 64
Fort Halstead: superintendent of theoretical research in armaments……Page 67
My professional association with Sir Nevill Mott……Page 70
Some reminiscences……Page 74
Memories from 1945 to 1954……Page 80
The Bristol period: 1945 to 1954……Page 82
Recollections……Page 87
Some personal reminiscences……Page 89
Postwar days at Bristol……Page 93
Master, colleague and friend of our laboratory……Page 95
Nevill in Bristol during the early fifties……Page 99
My brother-in-law……Page 102
My uncle……Page 103
Memories;with gratitude……Page 105
Recollections of Bristol 1951 52……Page 110
A brief reminiscence……Page 114
Mott and the cosmic radiation……Page 116
Reminiscences of Bristol……Page 122
Mind without frontiers……Page 124
A brilliant shaft of light……Page 126
Mott family life……Page 133
Preventing nuclear war……Page 148
The Oxford Research Group……Page 151
Memories of the Professor’s secretary……Page 154
Magister……Page 160
How he saved the Laboratory of Molecular Biology……Page 164
A student’s view……Page 166
Can you hear me in the back?……Page 169
Excursions into politics……Page 172
Tripos reform and invention……Page 178
Metal physics at the Cavendish: a personal appreciation……Page 181
Selected encounters……Page 183
Moving on……Page 188
Cavendish Professor……Page 190
A Jewish connection……Page 194
NFM and PCS……Page 197
Gifts to physics……Page 200
A reminiscence and appreciation……Page 202
Applied science……Page 205
Energetic kindness……Page 210
Starting a university……Page 214
Student rebellion and how NEC got a grant……Page 218
Open learning……Page 220
Teaching science……Page 222
My memories……Page 228
Editor, chairman and president: three roles in one company……Page 230
Reminiscences……Page 234
A happy warrior……Page 236
Some personal recollections……Page 240
Working with Nevill Mott……Page 242
Reminiscences……Page 248
Democritus of Elysium……Page 250
Defects in chalcogenide glasses……Page 255
Glass, raspberries and Cader Idris……Page 258
Memories of a graduate student……Page 262
The Mott transition……Page 265
A sovereign friend……Page 270
A man for all seasons……Page 275
Encountering Sir Nevill……Page 280
The enquiring chemist……Page 283
Sharing a whisky……Page 288
A man and a scientist……Page 290
Non-crystalline solids: order in disorder……Page 294
Nobel prize news in Marburg……Page 298
Swedish involvements……Page 302
My life touched by Nevill……Page 308
Conquering a new frontier……Page 310
Mott’s room……Page 313
My research with Sir Nevill……Page 317
Personal memories……Page 322
Reminescences……Page 326
Growing up with Sir Nevill……Page 329
Fond remembrances……Page 331
Science and social life with Nevill in Grenoble……Page 333
Beyond the Mott transition……Page 335
High-temperature superconductivity……Page 339
My brother-in-law……Page 352
A scientist who came to believe……Page 356
Science and religion……Page 359
Searching for religious truths……Page 363
Nevill’s funeral address……Page 364