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Authorised form of nameVleck; John Hasbrouck Van (1899 - 1980)
Other forms of nameJohn Hasbrouck
Other forms of surnameVan Vleck
Dates1899 - 1980
NationalityAmerican
Place of birthMiddletown, Connecticut, USA
Date of birth13 March 1899
Place of deathCambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Date of death27/10/1980
Research fieldMagnetism
Quantum mechanics
Spectroscopy
Chemical physics
ActivityMedals and prizes:
Nobel Prize (Physics) 1977
Membership categoryForeign Member
Date of election20/04/1967
SourceSources:
DSB vol 18 pp 949-957
Obituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1982 vol 28 pp 627-665, plate, by Brebis Bleaney
References:
B Bleaney, 'Jubilees of Radio-Frequency Spectroscopy' in NR 1997 vol 51 pp 317-326
B Bleaney and O V Lounasmaa, 'Nuclear orientation and nuclear cooling experiments in Oxford and Helsinki. Part 1. Progress before 1940' in NR 2003 vol 57 pp 317 - 322
B Bleaney and O V Lounasmaa, 'Nuclear orientation and nuclear cooling experiments in Oxford and Helsinki. Part 3. Progress from 1975 to 2001' in NR 2003 vol 57 pp 331 - 344
CodeNA5772
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
EC/1967/36Vleck, John Hasbrouck Van: certificate of election to the Royal Society
IM/004710Vleck, John Hasbrouck VanJune 1955 ?
IM/004709Vleck, John Hasbrouck Vannd
RR/51/122Referee's report by Ralph Howard Fowler, on a paper 'A new method of calculating the mean value of 1/r3 for keplerian systems in quantum mechanics' by John Hasbrouck Van Vleck[November 1933]
RR/50/83Referee's report by Charles Galton Darwin, on a paper 'The theory of the structure of ethylene and a note on the structure of ethane' by William George PenneyNovember 1933
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