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Walter Kohn (German pronunciation: [ˈvaltɐ ˈkoːn]; March 9, 1923 – April 19, 2016) was an Austrian-American theoretical physicist and theoretical chemist. He was awarded, with John Pople , the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1998. [4]
Apr 19, 2016 · Walter Kohn developed the density-functional theory, which simplified the quantum mechanical calculations of complex systems such as molecules. He was born in Vienna in 1923 and died in Santa Barbara in 2016.
Walter Kohn (born March 9, 1923, Vienna, Austria—died April 19, 2016, Santa Barbara, California, U.S.) was an Austrian-born American physicist who, with John A. Pople, received the 1998 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. The award recognized their individual work on computations in quantum chemistry.
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Many decades later I became active in attempts to bring an end to the US-Soviet nuclear arms race and became a leader of unsuccessful faculty initiatives to terminate the role of the University of California as manager of the nuclear weapons laboratories at Los Alamos and Livermore.
Walter Kohn is awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry on October 13, 1998 for his development of the density-functional theory. Walter Kohn is a condensed matter theorist who has made seminal contributions to the understanding of the electronic structure of materials.
Jun 1, 2016 · Condensed-matter physicist who revolutionized quantum chemistry. Walter Kohn's profound questioning of what the arrangement of electrons can tell us about a material's character led...
Apr 25, 2016 · Walter Kohn, an Austrian-born American scientist and former refugee who shared a Nobel Prize in Chemistry — a subject that he had last formally studied in high school — died on last...
