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...Princeton University, first became interested in physics as a student of Van Vleck's. He extended the basic understanding of magnetism and explained the conducting properties of electrons in amorphous materials like glass, which do not have the patterned atomic structure of crystalline substances like silicon. Sir Nevill Mott, 72, former head of the famed Cavendish Laboratory at England's Cambridge University, provided the theoretical underpinnings of modern solid-state physics in the 1920s. His later work with amorphous materials led to development of the "Mott model," a theoretical framework for understanding the properties of semiconductors made from...
...East Sussex, is the dramatic heart of The Case of Yolande McShane, a powerful documentary shown last week on British television. The "case" began in March 1976 when Sussex police learned that Yolande McShane, 60, the wife of an artist, was urging her 87-year-old mother, Mrs. Edith Mott, to commit suicide. The daughter was deeply in debt and stood to inherit $70,000 upon her mother's death...
Having obtained permission from the nuns who cared for Mrs. Mott, police filmed the 3½-hour visit. As she left the home, McShane was arrested. The nuns searched Mrs. Mott's clothing and found 18 Nembutal tablets-more than enough to kill a healthy adult. Still on film, the mother explained that she wished to die. "It's because my daughter loves me so much that she wants to help me," she said...
...McShane to tell her side of the story on camera. "My mother's been threatening to commit suicide for about 40 years," she explained. "It's a fantasy of hers." The lethal pills, she said, were a sort of "security" for her mother. As it happened, Mrs. Mott died of natural causes two weeks ago, ten days before the TV documentary went...
When suddenly everyone left town and the accouterments of power vanished and the languor set in again, even Tarpley Mott confessed that the trouble had been worthwhile. It was he who managed a seat in the front row and shook hands afterwards with the man who answered the questions. When congratulated on this, he said: "If you know this town the way I do, you can get into anywhere, I don't care who visits." But the remark was not cynical the way it may sound on paper...