American physicist (1899–1980)
John Hasbrouck Van Vleck was an American physicist who made important contributions to understanding how magnetic materials behave and how electrons move in atoms, work that helped establish the foundations of modern quantum mechanics. His theoretical discoveries proved essential to the development of practical technologies like lasers and transistors that shaped the modern world.
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John Hasbrouck Van Vleck (/væn vlɛk/; 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. He shared the Prize with Philip W. Anderson and Nevill Mott.
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