| Authorised form of name | Vleck; John Hasbrouck Van (1899 - 1980) |
| Other forms of name | John Hasbrouck |
| Other forms of surname | Van Vleck |
| Dates | 1899 - 1980 |
| Nationality | American |
| Place of birth | Middletown, Connecticut, USA |
| Date of birth | 13/03/1899 |
| Place of death | Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA |
| Date of death | 27/10/1980 |
| Research field | Magnetism |
| Quantum mechanics |
| Spectroscopy |
| Chemical physics |
| Activity | Medals and prizes:
Nobel Prize (Physics) 1977 |
| Membership category | Foreign Member |
| Date of election | 20/04/1967 |
| Source | Sources:
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 |
| Code | NA5772 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| EC/1967/36 | Vleck, John Hasbrouck Van: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| IM/004710 | Vleck, John Hasbrouck Van | June 1955 ? |
| IM/004709 | Vleck, John Hasbrouck Van | nd |
| RR/51/122 | Referee'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/50/83 | Referee'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 Penney | November 1933 |