John Hasbrouck Van Vleck
American physicist (1899–1980)
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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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- Born
- 1899
- Died
- 1980-10-27
- Works
- 8
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- The theory of electric and magnetic susceptibilities, (The International series of monographs on physics)
- The theory of electric and magnetic susceptibilities
- The theory of electric and magnetic susceptibilities
- The theory of electric and magnetic susceptibilities
- A critical study of possible models of the normal helium atom
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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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1899 births1980 deaths20th-century American mathematicians20th-century American physicistsAmerican fellows of the Royal SocietyAmerican Nobel laureatesAmerican people of Dutch descentBurials at Forest Hill Cemetery (Madison, Wisconsin)Fellows of Balliol College, OxfordFellows of the American Physical SocietyForeign members of the Royal Society