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John Hasbrouck Van Vleck

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John Hasbrouck Van Vleck (1899-1980) was an American physicist and mathematician. He shared the 1977 Nobel Prize in Physics with Philip W. Anderson and Nevill Mott for contributions to the understanding of the behavior of electronic magnetism in solids. He is credited with founding the quantum mechanical theory of magnetism, including crystal field theory and ligand field theory.

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Birth Year
1899 1
Death Date
1980-10-27 1
Death Year
1980 1
Death Place
Cambridge, United States 1
Nationality
United States 1
Birthplace
Middletown, United States 1
Field
Field (category)
Physics 1
Field (category)
Mathematics 1
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1. John Hasbrouck Van Vleck (Wikidata)
  • P570 (date of death): year
    +1980-10-27T00:00:00Z
  • P570 (date of death): full date
    +1980-10-27T00:00:00Z
  • P27 (country of citizenship): United States
    Q30
  • P20 (place of death): Cambridge, United States
    Q49111
  • P19 (place of birth): Middletown, United States
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John Hasbrouck Van Vleck (Wikipedia)
  • Works In: Physics, Lead sentence
    John Hasbrouck Van Vleck (; March 13, 1899, October 27, 1980) was an American physicist and mathematician who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1977 for his contributions to the understanding of the behavior of electronic magnetism in solids.
  • Works In: Mathematics, Lead sentence
    John Hasbrouck Van Vleck (; March 13, 1899, October 27, 1980) was an American physicist and mathematician who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1977 for his contributions to the understanding of the behavior of electronic magnetism in solids.
  • Member Of: Royal Society, Article text
    He was awarded the Irving Langmuir Award in 1965, the National Medal of Science in 1966 and elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society (ForMemRS) in 1967. He was awarded the
  • Member Of: American Physical Society, Categories
    Category:Fellows of the American Physical Society
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