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John Hasbrouck Van Vleck

Born on March 13, 1899

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John Hasbrouck Van Vleck (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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