John Hasbrouck Van Vleck Scientist

John Hasbrouck Van Vleck (March 13, 1899 – October 27, 1980) was an American physicist and mathematician, co-awarded the 1977 Nobel Prize in Physics, for his contributions to the understanding of the behavior of electrons in magnetic solids.

Personal facts

John Hasbrouck Van Vleck
Birth dateMarch 13, 1899
Birth place
Middletown Connecticut
Nationality
United States
Date of deathOctober 27, 1980
Place of death
Cambridge Massachusetts
Education
Harvard University
University of Wisconsin–Madison

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Scientist

awards
Royal Society
doctoral advisor
Edwin C. Kemble
doctoral student
Field of study
Physics

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External resources

  1. http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRev.24.330
  2. http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRev.24.347
  3. http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1977/vleck-lecture.html
  4. http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/archive/00002818/01/duncan-janssen.pdf
  5. http://www.aip.org/history/ohilist/4373.html
  6. http://www.aip.org/history/ohilist/4930_1.html
  7. http://www.aip.org/history/ohilist/4931_1.html
  8. http://www.chazen.wisc.edu/home.htm
  9. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1085402
  10. http://www.nndb.com/people/916/000099619