| John H. van Vleck  AKA John Hasbrouck van Vleck
Born: 13-Mar-1899
Birthplace: Middletown, CT
Died: 27-Oct-1980
Location of death: Cambridge, MA
Cause of death: unspecified
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Physicist Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Quantum mechanics of magnetism Father: (professor of mathematics, Wesleyan University)
Wife: Abigail Pearson (m. 10-Jun-1927)
University: AB, University of Wisconsin at Madison (1920)
University: PhD, Harvard University (1922)
Professor: University of Minnesota, Minneapolis (1923-)
Professor: University of Wisconsin (1928-34)
Professor: Harvard University (1945-69)
Lorentz Medal 1974
Nobel Prize for Physics 1977 (with Philip W. Anderson and Nevill F. Mott)
National Medal of Science
International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science
Royal Society
National Academy of Sciences
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
American Philosophical Society
American Physical Society President (1952)
Author of books:
Quantum Principles and Line Spectra (1926, physics)
The Theory of Electric and Magnetic Susceptibilities (1932, physics)
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