Fonds MOT - Diary of Nevill Francis Mott

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PPC/MOT

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GB 2198 PPC/MOT

Title

Diary of Nevill Francis Mott

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  • (Undated typescript covering the period 1959-1965.) (Creation)

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1 folder Typewritten paper

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Name of creator

(1905-1996)

Biographical history

(1905-1996) Physicist. Admitted Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge in 1930 as a Fellow; Professorial Fellow, 1954; Master 1959-65. Cavendish Professor of Experimental Physics, Cambridge, 1954. Knighted 1962. Died 1996.

Archival history

Immediate source of acquisition or transfer

Given by Nevill Mott to Christopher Brooke for safekeeping during his lifetime. Transferred to the Archive in 1997 after Mott's death.

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Typescript of a diary relating to the period of Mott's mastership of the College.

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Open access - no restrictions.

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      See also Magisterial records (MAS). See also: correspondence with Lord Blackett, Royal Society; correspondence with Niels Bohr, Niels Bohr Institute; correspondence with Sir Edward Bullard, Churchill Archives Centre, Cambridge; letters to JG Crowther, Sussex University Library; correspondence with CA Coulson, Bodleian Library, Oxford; correspondence with Sir Charles Frank, Bristol University Library; correspondence with F London, Duke University; correspondence with RE Peierls, Bodleian Library, Oxford; correspondence with EC Stoner, Leeds University.

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      The material in the diary was the basis for part of Mott's autobiography, A Life in Science (1995).

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