John Hasbrouck Van Vleck - Wikipedia John Hasbrouck Van Vleck ( væn vlɛk ; [3] March 13, 1899 – October 27, 1980) was an American physicist and mathematician He was co-awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1977, for his contributions to the understanding of the behavior of electronic magnetism in solids
John Hasbrouck Van Vleck | Harvard John A. Paulson School of . . . John Hasbrouck Van Vleck (1899-1980), cowinner of the 1977 Nobel prize in physics, served as the first "modern" Dean of Engineering and Applied Physics at Harvard from 1951-57 Born in Middletown, Connecticut, Van Vleck grew up in Wisconsin and earned his bachelor's degree from the University of Wisconsin in 1920
John H. Van Vleck | Nobel Prize, Quantum Mechanics, Magnetism - Britannica John H Van Vleck was an American physicist and mathematician who shared the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1977 with Philip W Anderson and Sir Nevill F Mott The prize honoured Van Vleck’s contributions to the understanding of the behaviour of electrons in magnetic, noncrystalline solid materials
John H. Van Vleck – Biographical - NobelPrize. org Six prizes were awarded for achievements that have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind The 12 laureates' work and discoveries range from proteins' structures and machine learning to fighting for a world free of nuclear weapons See them all presented here
J. h. Van Vleck | Encyclopedia. com Van Vleck is considered the founder of modern theoretical physics, and enjoyed a long career as both researcher and mentor According to John Ellement in the Boston Globe, the Nobel laureate once explained his field of research as a way to "get at what is the truth of things The more we know about the universe, the better off we are "
John van Vleck | Department of Physics John Hasbrouck van Vleck 1977 Nobel Prize in Physics - Shared with Philip Anderson and Nevill Mott "for their fundamental theoretical investigations of the electronic structure of magnetic and disordered systems" Person Categories Nobel Laureate; location_on 17 Oxford Street Cambridge, MA 02138 617-495-2872
John Hasbrouck van Vleck :: New Netherland Institute Van Vleck is regarded as the founder of the modern quantum mechanical theory of magnetism He developed the concept of temperature-independent susceptibility, which became known as Van Vleck para-magnetism
John Van Vleck - Oxford Reference Van Vleck is regarded as the founder of the modern quantum mechanical theory of magnetism His earliest 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 for magnetism in particular
Van Vleck paramagnetism - Wikipedia In condensed matter and atomic physics, Van Vleck paramagnetism refers to a positive and temperature -independent contribution to the magnetic susceptibility of a material, derived from second order corrections to the Zeeman interaction