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The sixth Hume-Rothery Memorial Lecture was delivered at the Department of Metallurgy and Science of Materials, Oxford University on 4 March 1980. Sir Nevill Mott, MA, DSc, FRS is Emeritus Cavendish Professor of Physics in the University of Cambridge.
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