John Hasbrouck Van Vleck
1899-1980
American physicist best known for his quantum explanation of magnetic phenomena. He introduced the concept of temperature-independent susceptibility known as Van Vle...
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Van Vleck was born in Middletown, Connecticut, on March 13, 1899. He received his bachelor's degree from the University of Wisconsin in 1920 and his master's (1921) and doctorate (1922) from Harvard U...
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John Van Vleck was one of the United States' first theoretical physicists, specializing in problems of chemical physics, magnetism , quantum theory, and spectroscopy. Some of his work has had importan...
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