MOTT NEVILL FRANCIS: (1905-1996) English Physicist.

MOTT NEVILL FRANCIS: (1905-1996) English Physicist. Nobel Prize for Physics in 1977. A very interesting autograph manuscript signed at the heading `Reviewed by Sir Nevill Mott - Emeritus Cavendish Professor of Physics, University of Cambridge´, seven pages, 4to, n.p., n.d., [1985]. The document being a draft manuscript of his review for the book “Inner Exile: Recollection of a Life with Werner Heisenberg” by Elizabeth Heisenberg. Mott states in part `Her husband, as one of the few outstanding physicists who remained in Germany throughout Hitler´s regime has been the subject of much controversy. People ask, why did he stay, did he want to make an atom bomb for Hitler, did he know how to do it?´, further saying `..Heisenberg´s experience shows, sadly, that life is all too often the choice between two evils, in his care to abandon the country he loved or to collaborate, to some extent, with evil.´ The seventh page of the manuscript being a kind of brief autobiography by Mott, stating `I met Heisenberg first in 1928 in Niels Bohr´s Institute.´ Together with A.L.S., Nevill Mott, one page, Cambridge, 12th December 1986, on his printed stationery, University of Cambridge, department of Physics, being a brief text referring to the manuscript he is transmitting. Also including the original typed letter from June 1985 to Mott, sent from Physics Today requesting the review of the book, signed by his book editor. Accompanied by the original envelope addressed in Mott´s hand. VG, 3 £200-300 ] £240 - 360