Walter Kohn
Born March 9th, 1923 in Vienna, Austria.
Professor of Physics, Emeritus and Research Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA.
Email:kohn@physics.ucsb.edu
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National Medal of Science (1988); Member International Academy Quantum Molecular Sciences (1991); Feenberg Medal, Many Body Physics (1991); The Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1998).
Author of:
202 publications (1945-1998).
Important Contributions:
Density functional theory; Motion of electrons in periodic lattices;
Variational methods for scattering processes; Geometrical electron-phonon effects.
An obituary can be found at
http://www.independent.com/news/2016/apr/21/nobel-laureate-walter-kohn-dies-age-93/
and
http://cen.acs.org/articles/94/web/2016/04/Chemistry-Nobel-laureate-Walter-Kohn.html.