Davis E.A. (ed.) Nevill Mott: Reminiscences and Appreciations

Taylor & Francis, 1998. - 336 p.
This is a tribute to the life and work of Nobel Laureate Nevill Mott (1905-1996), a hugely admired and appreciated man, and one of Britain's greatest ever scientists. The book includes contributions from over 80 of his friends, family and colleagues, full of anecdotes and appreciations for this collossus of modern physics.Preface (by Tony Selvey).
Introduction (by Edward A. Davis).
Chronology of Nevill Mott’s life and work.
Prewar
A happy childhood (by Joan Fitch).
Cambridge and Manchester 1924–1933 (by Bertha Swirles Jeffreys).
Memories of Nevill and his Bristol Team (by Elisabeth Charlotte Leschke).
Bristol: first years (by Bernard Lovell).
Early days (by David Shoenberg).
A miraculous escape (by Lilly Gill).
Nevill: family friend (by Eleanor Scott).
War years
Bristol 1938: memories of a research student (by Frank Nabarro).
Fort Halstead: superintendent of theoretical research in armaments (by Ian Sneddon).
My professional association with Sir Nevill Mott (by Jack Allen).
Some reminiscences (by Arthur Vick).
Postwar Bristol
Memories from 1945 to 1954 (by Peggy Fisk).
The Bristol period: 1945 to 1954 (by Jack Mitchell).
Recollections (by Charles Frank).
Some personal reminiscences (by Bill Mitchell).
Postwar days at Bristol (by David Gibbs).
Master, colleague and friend of our laboratory (by Yvette Cauchois).
Nevill in Bristol during the early fifties (by Jacques Friedel).
My brother-in-law (by Mary Friedel).
My uncle (by Jean Friedel).
Memories — with gratitude (by Doris Kuhlmann-Wilsdorf).
Recollections of Bristol 1951–52 (by Alfred Seeger).
A brief reminiscence (by Robert Cahn).
Mott and the cosmic radiation (by Richard Dalitz).
Reminiscences of Bristol (by Charles Crussard).
Mind without frontiers (by Edward G. Steen).
A brilliant shaft of light (by Frederick Seitz).
Mott family life (by Alice Crampin).
Nuclear arms and Pugwash
Preventing nuclear war (by Joseph Rotblat).
The Oxford Research Group (by Scilla Elworthy).
Early Cambridge
Memories of the Professor’s secretary (by Shirley Fieldhouse).
Magister (by Ian Nicol).
How he saved the Laboratory of Molecular Biology (by Max Perutz).
A student’s view (by Maurice Rice).
Can you hear me in the back? (by Nic Rivier).
Excursions into politics (by Tam Dalyell).
Tripos reform and invention (by Richard Eden).
Metal physics at the Cavendish: a personal appreciation (by Peter Hirsch).
Selected encounters (by Mick Brown).
Moving on (by Archie Howie).
Cavendish Professor (by Brian Pippard).
A Jewish connection (by David Tabor).
NFM and PCS (by Abe Yoffe).
Gifts to physics (by John Ziman).
A reminiscence and appreciation (by Alan Cottrell).
Applied science (by James Menter).
Education
Energetic kindness (by Martyn Berry).
Starting a university (by Roger Blin-Stoyle).
Student rebellion and how NEC got a grant (by David Baron).
Open learning (by Michael Young).
Teaching science (by Clifford Butler).
Taylor & Francis
My memories (by Bryan Coles).
Editor, chairman and president: three roles in one company (by Elnora Ferguson).
Late Cambridge
Reminiscences (by Sam Edwards).
A happy warrior (by Phil Anderson).
Some personal recollections (by John Enderby).
Working with Nevill Mott (by Michael Pepper).
Reminiscences (by Lionel and Pearl Friedman).
Democritus of Elysium (by Mike Pollak).
Defects in chalcogenide glasses (by Bob Street).
Glass, raspberries and Cader Idris (by Neville Greaves).
Memories of a graduate student (by Eugenia Mytilineou).
The Mott transition (by Gordon Thomas).
A sovereign friend (by Friederich Hensel).
A man for all seasons (by Jenny Acrivos).
Encountering Sir Nevill (by John Goodenough).
The enquiring chemist (by Peter Edwards).
Sharing a whisky (by John Meurig Thomas).
A man and a scientist (by Marie-Luce Theye).
Non-crystalline solids: order in disorder (by Walter Spear).
Nobel prize news in Marburg (by Josef Stuke).
Swedish involvements (by Karl Berggren).
My life touched by Nevill (by Hellmut Fritzsche).
Conquering a new frontier (by Sybille Fritzsche).
Mott’s room (by Stan Ovshinsky).
My research with Sir Nevill (by Moshe Kaveh).
Personal memories (by Hiroshi Kamimura).
Reminescences (by Kazuo Morigaki).
Growing up with Sir Nevill (by Tirappatur Ramakrishnan).
Fond remembrances (by Ram Rao).
Science and social life with Nevill in Grenoble (by Claire Schlenker).
Beyond the Mott transition (by Yao Liang).
High-temperature superconductivity (by Sasha Alexandrov).
Religion
My brother-in-law (by John Horder).
A scientist who came to believe (by Christa Pongratz-Lippitt).
Science and religion (by Hugh Montefiore).
Searching for religious truths (by John Polkinghorne).
Nevill’s funeral address (by Peter Walker).