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Sir Nevill Francis Mott

BIRTH DATE:  9/30/1905
DEATH DATE:  8/8/96
CRAFT:  Science
NATIONALITY:  English
PROFESSION:  Nobel prize-winning physicist
TRAVELS:  Co-author (with Werner Heisenberg) of the Mott problem -- a paradox that illustrates some of the difficulties of understanding the nature of wave function collapse and measurement in quantum mechanics.
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