Walter Kohn
Physicist, Academic
1923 –
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Who is Walter Kohn?
Walter Kohn is an Austrian-born American theoretical physicist. He was awarded, with John Pople, the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1998. The award recognized their contributions to the understandings of the electronic properties of materials. In particular, Kohn played the leading role in the development of density functional theory, which made it possible to incorporate quantum mechanical effects in the electronic density. This computational simplification led to many insights and became an essential tool for electronic materials, atomic and molecular structure.
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- Born
- Mar 9, 1923
Vienna - Also known as
- Walter Samuel Gerst Kohn
- Parents
- Spouses
- Lois Kohn
- Mara Schiff
(1955/06/19 - )
- Children
- Religion
- Judaism
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Austria
- Canada
- Profession
- Education
- Bachelor of Arts, University of Toronto
Physics
( - 1945) - Applied mathematics
- PhD, Harvard University
Physics
( - 1948) - Master of Arts, University of Toronto
Applied mathematics
( - 1946)
- Bachelor of Arts, University of Toronto
- Employment
- University of California, Santa Barbara
- Lived in
- Santa Barbara
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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