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The President's National Medal of Science: Recipient Details

John H. Van Vleck

Title:

Professor of Physics

Affiliation:

Harvard University

Cambridge,Massachusetts  USA

Gender:

Male

Year Deceased:

1980

Award Discipline:

Physical Sciences

Award Year:

1966

Citation:

"For his many contributions to the develoment of the theory of molecular structure and for his profound influence, through original contributions and through many brilliant students, on the theory of the magnetic and dielectric properties of materials."

Presented by President Johnson at a White House ceremony on February 6, 1967.

Nobel Laureate:

Physics, 1977

 

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