Recollections of solid state theory, 1926-33

1980 ◽  
Vol 371 (1744) ◽  
pp. 49-51
Keyword(s):  
Solid State ◽  
Nobel Prize ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Energy Production ◽  
State Theory ◽  
Theoretical Physics ◽  
The Sun ◽  
Solid State Theory ◽  
Scientific Laboratory ◽  
Foreign Member

Bethe, Hans A. Born Strasbourg 1906. Educated at Frankfurt and Munich. University lecturer in England 1933-5. Professor at Cornell since 1935. Nobel Prize for Physics 1967 for explanation of energy production in the Sun. Research on many branches of theoretical physics. Director of theoretical physics division, Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory 1943-6. Elected a foreign member of the Royal Society 1957.

Law in Disorder

2021 ◽  
pp. 125-145
Author(s):  
Andrew Zangwill
Keyword(s):  
Solid State ◽  
Nobel Prize ◽  
Crucial Role ◽  
State Theory ◽  
Scaling Theory ◽  
Nobel Committee ◽  
Solid State Theory ◽  
Van Vleck ◽  
Electrostatic Mechanism ◽  
Visitor Program

A formal request by the theorists produces a stand-alone Solid-State Theory Group at Bell Labs. A summer visitor program leads several visiting theorists to conclude that localization occurred in Feher’s samples due to an electrostatic mechanism suggested by Nevill Mott. Anderson develops a theory for localization where the disorder in the positions of the dopants plays a crucial role. Mott champions Anderson’s theory and the Nobel Committee cites it when Anderson wins a share of the 1977 Nobel Prize with Mott and John Van Vleck. David Thouless re-ignites Anderson’s interest in localization and he leads the Gang of Four to develop a novel scaling theory of localization.

Elements of Solid State Theory.

1960 ◽  
Vol 26 (5_6) ◽  
pp. 436-436
Author(s):  
Hans Christoph Wolf
Keyword(s):  
Solid State ◽  
State Theory ◽  
Solid State Theory

Coupled fields and thermodiffusion in solid state theory

2000 ◽  
Vol 555 (1-3) ◽  
pp. 269-272
Author(s):  
T.J. Hoffmann ◽  
M. Drozdowski
Keyword(s):  
Solid State ◽  
State Theory ◽  
Coupled Fields ◽  
Solid State Theory

Otto Meyerhof, 1884 - 1951

1954 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 174-200 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Nobel Prize ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Artistic Development ◽  
School Life ◽  
National Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Long Period ◽  
University Of Edinburgh ◽  
The University ◽  
Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Foreign Member

Otto Meyerhof was born on 12 April 1884 in Berlin and died in Philadelphia on 6 October 1951 at the age of 67; he was the son of Felix Meyerhof, who was born in 1849 at Hildesheim, and Bettina Meyerhof, nee May, born in 1862 in Hamburg; both his father and grandfather had been in business. An elder sister and two younger brothers died long before him. In 1923 he shared the Nobel prize for Physiology (for 1922) with A. V. Hill. He received an Hon. D.C.L. in 1926 from the University of Edinburgh, was a Foreign Member (1937) of the Royal Society of London, an Hon. Member of the Harvey Society and of Sigma XI. In 1944 he was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences, U.S.A. Otto Meyerhof went through his school life up to the age of 14 without delay, but there is no record that he was then brilliant. When he was 16 he developed some kidney trouble, which caused a long period of rest in bed. This period of seclusion seems to have been responsible for a great mental and artistic development. Reading constantly he matured perceptibly, and in the autumn of 1900 was sent to Egypt on the doctor’s advice for recuperation.

Memories of early days in solid state physics

1980 ◽  
Vol 371 (1744) ◽  
pp. 56-66 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
State Physics ◽  
Quantum Mechanics ◽  
Solid State ◽  
Nobel Prize ◽  
Niels Bohr ◽  
Theoretical Physics ◽  
Solid State Physics ◽  
Research Papers ◽  
Atomic Collisions

Mott, Sir Nevill. Born Leeds 1905. Studied theoretical physics under R. H. Fowler in Cambridge, in Copenhagen under Niels Bohr and in Gottingen. Professor of Theoretical Physics in Bristol 1933-54, and Cavendish Professor of Physics, Cambridge 1954-71. Nobel Prize for Physics 1977. Author of several books and research papers on application of quantum mechanics to atomic collisions and since 1933 on problems of solid state science

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