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Nevill Mott NEVILL MOTT Reminiscences and Appreciations Edited by E.A.Davis University of Leicester UK Taylor & Francis Ltd, 1 Gunpowder Square, London EC4A 3DE USA Taylor & Francis Inc., 1900 Frost Road, Suite 101, Bristol, PA 19007 This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2003. Copyright © Taylor & Francis Ltd 1998 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, electrostatic, magnetic tape, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the copyright owner. British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. ISBN 0-203-48439-8 Master e-book ISBN ISBN 0-203-79263-7 (Adobe eReader Format) ISBN 0-7484-0790-1 (Print Edition) Library of Congress Cataloging-Publication-Data are available Cover design by Jim Wilkie Contents Preface xi Tony Selvey Introduction xii Edward A.Davis List of contributors xxv Chronology of Nevill Mott’s life and work xxviii Prewar A happy childhood 3 Joan Fitch Cambridge and Manchester 1924–1933 7 Bertha Swirles Jeffreys Memories of Nevill and his Bristol Team 10 Elisabeth Charlotte Leschke Bristol: first years 14 Bernard Lovell Early days 18 David Shoenberg A miraculous escape 22 Lilly Gill Nevill: family friend 28 Eleanor Scott War years Bristol 1938: memories of a research student 33 Frank Nabarro Fort Halstead: superintendent of theoretical research in armaments 36 Ian Sneddon My professional association with Sir Nevill Mott 39 Jack Allen v Contents Some reminiscences 43 Arthur Vick Postwar Bristol Memories from 1945 to 1954 49 Peggy Fisk The Bristol period: 1945 to 1954 51 Jack Mitchell Recollections 56 Charles Frank Some personal reminiscences 58 Bill Mitchell Postwar days at Bristol 62 David Gibbs Master, colleague and friend of our laboratory 64 Yvette Cauchois Nevill in Bristol during the early fifties 68 Jacques Friedel My brother-in-law 71 Mary Friedel My uncle 72 Jean Friedel Memories—with gratitude 74 Doris Kuhlmann-Wilsdorf Recollections of Bristol 1951–52 79 Alfred Seeger A brief reminiscence 83 Robert Cahn Mott and the cosmic radiation 85 Richard Dalitz Reminiscences of Bristol 91 Charles Crussard Mind without frontiers 93 Edward G.Steen A brilliant shaft of light 95 Frederick Seitz vi Contents Mott family life 102 Alice Crampin Nuclear arms and Pugwash Preventing nuclear war 117 Joseph Rotblat The Oxford Research Group 120 Scilla Elworthy Early Cambridge Memories of the Professor’s secretary 123 Shirley Fieldhouse Magister 129 Ian Nicol How he saved the Laboratory of Molecular Biology 133 Max Perutz A student’s view 135 Maurice Rice Can you hear me in the back? 138 Nic Rivier Excursions into politics 141 Tam Dalyell Tripos reform and invention 147 Richard Eden Metal physics at the Cavendish: a personal appreciation 150 Peter Hirsch Selected encounters 152 Mick Brown Moving on 157 Archie Howie Cavendish Professor 159 Brian Pippard A Jewish connection 163 David Tabor NFM and PCS 166 Abe Yoffe Gifts to physics 169 John Ziman vii Contents A reminiscence and appreciation 171 Alan Cottrell Applied science 174 James Menter Education Energetic kindness 179 Martyn Berry Starting a university 183 Roger Blin-Stoyle Student rebellion and how NEC got a grant 187 David Baron Open learning 189 Michael Young Teaching science 191 Clifford Butler Taylor & Francis My memories 197 Bryan Coles Editor, chairman and president: three roles in one company 199 Elnora Ferguson Late Cambridge Reminiscences 203 Sam Edwards A happy warrior 205 Phil Anderson Some personal recollections 209 John Enderby Working with Nevill Mott 211 Michael Pepper Reminiscences 217 Lionel and Pearl Friedman Democritus of Elysium 219 Mike Pollak Defects in chalcogenide glasses 224 Bob Street viii Contents Glass, raspberries and Cader Idris 227 Neville Greaves Memories of a graduate student 231 Eugenia Mytilineou The Mott transition 234 Gordon Thomas A sovereign friend 239 Friederich Hensel A man for all seasons 244 Jenny Acrivos Encountering Sir Nevill 249 John Goodenough The enquiring chemist 252 Peter Edwards Sharing a whisky 257 John Meurig Thomas A man and a scientist 259 Marie-Luce Thèye Non-crystalline solids: order in disorder 263 Walter Spear Nobel prize news in Marburg 267 Josef Stuke Swedish involvements 271 Karl Berggren My life touched by Nevill 277 Hellmut Fritzsche Conquering a new frontier 279 Sybille Fritzsche Mott’s room 282 Stan Ovshinsky My research with Sir Nevill 286 Moshe Kaveh Personal memories 291 Hiroshi Kamimura Reminescences 295 Kazuo Morigaki ix
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