Walter Kohn - Nobel Prize in Chemistry — 1998
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Walter Kohn

Prize
Nobel Prize in Chemistry — 1998
for his development of the density-functional theory
Together with: John Pople
Citizenship
Canada Canada United States United States Austria Austria
Languages
English
date of birth
3/9/1923
place of birth
Vienna
date of death
4/19/2016
place of death
Santa Barbara
Lived
93 years

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member of
  • American Philosophical Society
    • start time: 1994
  • Royal Society of London
  • National Academy of Sciences
  • International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science
  • Austrian Academy of Sciences
  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities
  • Russian Academy of Sciences
employer
  • University of California, Santa Barbara
  • University of California, San Diego
  • Carnegie Mellon University
educated at
  • University of Toronto
  • Akademisches Gymnasium
  • Harvard University
doctoral student
  • Joseph Rudnick
  • M. Lawrence Glasser
  • M. Lawrence Glasser
  • Michael Geller
  • Vinay Ambegaokar
notable work
  • density functional theory
occupation
  • physicist
  • chemist
  • university teacher
field of work
  • theoretical physics
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