1923 - 2016
Walter Kohn American Scientist
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Passed away on 19th April, 2016 aged 93.
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| First Name |
Walter
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| Last Name |
Kohn
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| Birthday |
9th March, 1923
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| Birthplace |
Vienna
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| Died |
19th April, 2016
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| Place of Death |
Santa Barbara, California, U.S.
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| Zodiac Sign |
Pisces
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| Nationality |
American
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| Occupation |
Scientist
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Walter Kohn (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. 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 calculate quantum mechanical electronic structure by equations involving the electronic density (rather than the many-body wavefunction). This computational simplification led to more accurate calculations on complex systems as well as many new insights, and it has become an essential tool for materials science, condensed-phase physics, and the chemical physics of atoms and molecules.
