John Hasbrouck Van Vleck
John Hasbrouck Van Vleck 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.
Background
- Born in
- Middletown
- Educated at
- Harvard UniversityUniversity of Wisconsin–MadisonMadison Central High School
- Awards
- 🏆 Guggenheim Fellowship🏆 Elliott Cresson Medal🏆 Richtmyer Memorial Lecture Award🏆 Foreign Member of the Royal Society🏆 Fellow of the American Physical Society
- Doctoral Advisors
- 🎓 Edwin C. Kemble
- Doctoral Students
- 📖 Thomas Kuhn
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1899
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