Early financial assistance from the Ford, Hewlett and Mott Foundations was critical to establishing the association.

During World War II, he worked for the Admiralty Research Laboratory, from which emerged a group of many notable scientists, including David Bates, Robert Boyd, George Deacon, John Gunn, Harrie Massey, and Nevill Mott ; he worked on the design of magnetic and acoustic mines, and was instrumental in designing a new mine that was effective against German minesweepers.

Researchers like Mott and Hubbard realized that this was perhaps appropriate for strongly delocalized s-and p-electrons but for d-electrons, and even more for f-electrons the interaction with electrons ( and atomic displacements ) in the local environment may become stronger than the delocalization that leads to broad bands.

This type of exciton was named for Gregory Wannier and Nevill Francis Mott.

Concurrently, a strong City Beautiful movement, promoted by Mayor Frank Kanning Mott, was responsible for creating and preserving parks and monuments in Oakland, including major improvements to Lake Merritt and the construction of Oakland Civic Auditorium, which cost $ 1M in 1914.

It was organized by local New York women upon the occasion of a visit by Philadelphia-based Lucretia Mott, a Quaker famous for her orating ability, a skill rarely cultivated by American women at the time.

A heated debate sprang up regarding women's right to vote, with many including Mott urging the removal of this concept, but Frederick Douglass argued eloquently for its inclusion, and the suffrage resolution was retained.

The convention was seen by some of its contemporaries, including featured speaker Mott, as but a single step in the continuing effort by women to gain for themselves a greater proportion of social, civil and moral rights, but it was viewed by others as a revolutionary beginning to the struggle by women for complete equality with men.

" At this convention, five votes were placed calling for Lucretia Mott to be Smith's vice-president — the first time in the United States that a woman was suggested for federal executive office.

Mott was present at the meeting in which the Progressive Friends left the Hicksite Quakers.

On July 16, Lucretia Mott sent a note to Stanton apologizing in advance for James Mott not being able to attend the first day, as he was feeling " quite unwell ".

Lucretia Mott was described as " the moving spirit of the occasion ".

Lucretia Mott read a humorous newspaper piece written by her sister Martha Wright in which Wright questioned why, after an overworked mother completed the myriad daily tasks that were required of her but not of her husband, she was the one upon whom written advice was " so lavishly bestowed.

In the evening, the meeting was opened to all persons, and Lucretia Mott addressed a large audience.

Quaker James Mott was well enough to attend, and he chaired the morning meeting ; it was still too radical a concept that a woman serve as chair in front of both men and women.

Because of the fame and drawing power of Lucretia Mott, who would not be staying in the Upstate New York area for much longer, a regional Woman's Rights Convention was held two weeks later in Rochester, New York with Abigail Bush serving as president, and Lucretia Mott as featured speaker.

Lucretia Mott reflected in August 1848 upon the two women's rights conventions in which she had participated that summer, and assessed them no greater than other projects and missions she was involved with.

He was born into a Quaker family in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, son of Edward M. Davis and Maria Mott Davis ( a daughter of the women's advocate Lucretia Mott ).

Coulomb and Mott scattering measurements can be made by using electron beams as scattering probes, and similarly, positron annihilation can be used as an indirect measurement of local electron density.

Mott supervised the construction in association with John Brodie, who, as City Engineer of Liverpool, had co-ordinated the feasibility studies made by consultant Engineers Mott, Hay and Anderson.

Geim has received several awards for his pioneering research on graphene, including the 2007 Mott medal for the " discovery of a new class of materials – free-standing two-dimensional crystals – in particular graphene ", the 2008 EuroPhysics Prize ( together with Novoselov ) " for discovering and isolating a single free-standing atomic layer of carbon ( graphene ) and elucidating its remarkable electronic properties ", and the 2009 Körber Prize for " develop the first two-dimensional crystals made of carbon atoms ".

Although severely wounded in the eye, Sergeant Mott made a rush for the gun and after a fierce struggle seized the gunner and took him prisoner, capturing the gun.

Prominent leaders of the feminist movement in the United States include Lucretia Coffin Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucy Stone, and Susan B. Anthony ; Anthony and other activists such as Victoria Woodhull and Matilda Joslyn Gage made attempts to cast votes prior to their legal entitlement to do so, for which many of them faced charges.

And last year, Blur and Mott The Hoople made their first appearances in reunited form on a stage at the MOJO Honours List.

The company was founded in 1842 by Samuel R. Mott in Bouckville, New York, who made apple cider and vinegar.

During the Kansas campaign, organization founders Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony had accepted the help of a known racist, alienating abolitionist members as well as AERA president Lucretia Mott.

The General Assembly in Pennsylvania passed a similar married woman's property law a few weeks later, one which Lucretia Mott and others had championed.

Other Chinese gangs also existed, like the Hung Ching and Chih Kung gangs of Cantonese and Toishan descent, which were affiliated with each other and also had control of Mott Street.

The Fuzhou immigration pattern started out in the 1970s very similarly like the Cantonese immigration during the late 1800s to early 1900s that had established Manhattan's Chinatown on Mott Street, Pell Street, and Doyers Street.

In actuality, the recording was by a Danny McCulloch and Gerry Chapman ( usually going under the band name of The Trybe ), consisted of heavy rock versions of Mott's hits and original songs, and had nothing at all to do with the original Mott the Hoople.

This band ultimately had greater commercial success than Mott The Hoople.

Sir Nevill Mott, Nobel Laureate in 1977 for his own contributions to solid-state electronics, remarked that " J. C. Bose was at least 60 years ahead of his time " and " In fact, he had anticipated the existence of P-type and N-type semiconductors.

Mott married Leila Ada White in 1891 and had two sons and two daughters.

In October 2009 it was reported that consultants Mott MacDonald had won a contract to investigate the possibility of new crossings between Tower Bridge and the Dartford Crossing.

Rassilon was confronted by the Tenth Doctor who was left with the choice of killing either the Master or Rassilon with a gun he had been given by his companion Wilfred Mott to sever the link.

Ten's chief programmer David Mott admitted the series had recently experienced " audience erosion " inherent with the show's long run.

In the article, Chief Programming Officer David Mott stated that '... Ten have considered ways to bring the show back on a number of occasions ' however was worried that audiences had ' moved on '.

Hatcher was soon replaced by H. R. Mott, vice president of the Nehi Corporation for several years beforehand, and who had been associated with the company since 1920.

After the walkout, the editorship of Edge passed back to Tony Mott, who had been editor prior to Diniz-Sanches.

During the fighting around Spotsylvania, Mott's 4th Division became so depleted by casualties, and by the loss of several regiments whose term of service had expired, that it was discontinued and merged into Birney's Division, Mott retaining the command of a brigade.

The convention had been planned as an all-male meeting, but female delegates arrived from the United States, including Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott, who later were instrumental in the movement for women's rights.

" Acting on advice given to me by the great missionary statesman, John R. Mott, I had determined to challenge every assumption that I could recognize as underlying the work of my Church in India, not to prove any of them wrong, but to find out, if I could, whether they seemed to be right or wrong as indicated by their results ".

The couple had 9 children: 6 sons, including Alexander Brown Mott ( 1826-1889 ), Valentine Mott, Jr. ( 1822-1854 ), and Thaddeus P. Mott ; and 3 daughters, including Louisa Dunmore Mott, who in 1842 married the surgeon William Holme Van Buren.