Article: Obituary: Sir Nevill Mott

Encyclopedia entry: Sir Nevill Mott
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition;      423 words ...Sir Nevill Mott 1905-96, British physicist. A professor at the Univ. of Bristol (1933-54 ... He wrote A Life in Science (1995). Bibliography: See E. A. Davis, ed., Nevill Mott: Reminiscenses and Appreciations (1998).

Dictionary definition: wave mechanics
A Dictionary of Chemistry;      295 words ...wave mechanics A formulation of quantum mechanics in which the dual wave– ... account the de Broglie wavelength , Schrödinger postulated a wave mechanics that bears the same relation to Newtonian mechanics as physical optics ...

Article: WAVE MECHANICS; STYLE AND TECHNOLOGY CONTINUE TO ...
HFN The Weekly Newspaper for the Home Furnishing Network;  October 23, 2000 ;     700+ words ...NEW YORK-Price wars over basic microwave ovens, which if anything seem to be intensifying, are not dampening a sense of freshness in the category. So said Joy Daniel, who ought to know. As Sharp's senior manager for product development, she has played a central role in creating many of the

Article: Wave mechanics 101
Isthmus;  March 31, 2006 ;     700+ words ...One question answered, and five not worth going into This is going to take a while to explain, so bear with me. My kid is a fan of the Age of Empires series of computer games, which give you a bird's-eye view of the landscape on which your armies cavort. You can see an amazing amount of detail, but

Wave Mechanics.(Brief Article)
Weatherwise;  November 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ...Cutlip, Kimbra As the 2000 hurricane season comes to an end, Michel Ochi of the University of Florida announces a new method to more accurately estimate the severity of waves near shore during hurricanes. Ochi, a professor of coastal engineering, has added new factors to the standard method of

Dictionary definition: Van Vleck, John Hasbrouck
A Dictionary of Scientists;      552 words ... ... papers were on the old quantum theory, but with the advent of wave mechanics pioneered by Paul Dirac he began to look at the implications ... the new science of radioastronomy. In 1977, together with Nevill Mott and Philip Anderson , he shared the Nobel Prize for physics ...

Article: Letter : Beat that
The Independent - London;  October 7, 1996 ;     242 words ...Sir: Further to Andrew Peto's letter (5 October), Clifton can claim three Nobel Prize winners: Sir John Kendrew (1962, Chemistry), Sir John Hicks (1972, Economics) and Sir Nevill Mott (1977, Physics). TOM GOVER The Old Cliftonian Society Bristol