Charles Francis Mott (1877–1967) the son of Charles Henry Blackshaw Mott was an English physicist and educator, and the father of

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Nevill Francis Mott Sir Nevill Francis Mott (30 September 1905 – 8 August 1996) was a British physicist who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1977 for his work on the electronic structure of magnetic and disordered systems, especially amorphous semiconductors. ...

. In 1901 while at the

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he attempted to investigate the field effect following a suggestion from J. J. Thomson. page 213 He married Lilian Mary Reynolds, also a researcher at the Cavendish lab. By 1905 he was the Senior Science Master at

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. His wife also taught mathematics there. From 1922-1945 Mott served as Director of Education in Liverpool.

C.F. Mott Teachers' Training College C.F. Mott Training College or C.F. Mott Teachers' Training College or City of Liverpool C.F. Mott Training College was a college located in near Huyton on Merseyside. The college was named after Charles Francis Mott who was the Director of Educ ...

was named after him.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Mott, Charles Francis 1877 births 1967 deaths English physicists Schoolteachers from Surrey