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Walter Kohn | |
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Walter Kohn | |
Born | (1923-03-09) March 9, 1923 Vienna |
Nationality | United States |
Fields | Physics |
Institutions | UC Santa Barbara, UC San Diego |
Alma mater | University of Toronto, Harvard |
Known for | Density functional theory |
Notable awards | Nobel Prize in Chemistry(1998), Buckley Prize |
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Walter Kohn (born March 9, 1923, in Vienna, Austria) is an Austrian-born American theoretical physicist. He was awarded, with John Pople, the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1998.[1] 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 (rather than through its many-body wavefunction). This computational simplification led to many insights and became an essential tool for electronic materials, atomic and molecular structure.
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