Walter Kohn

Walter Kohn (March 9, 1923 – April 19, 2016) was an Austrian-born American theoretical physicist of Jewish descent.

He was awarded, with John Pople, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1998.From Exile to Excellence , by Karin Hanta (Austria Culture Vol. 9 No. 1 January/February 1999)

Kohn was one of 20 Nobel LaureatesSuch as Peter Agre, Nadine Gordimer, Yuan T. Lee, Elinor Ostrom, Werner Arber, David Gross, James Mirrlees, Carlo Rubbia, Paul J. Crutzen, Mario J. Molina, Amartya Sen, Peter Doherty (scientist), Douglass North, John Sulston, Murray Gell-Mann, Harold Kroto, Douglas Osheroff, Muhammad Yunus who signed the "Stockholm memorandum" at the 3rd Nobel Laureate Symposium on Global Sustainability in Stockholm, Sweden on 18 May 2011."Stockholm Memorandum,"  Nobel-cause.de, 2011

Kohn died on April 19, 2016 at his home in Santa Barbara, California from jaw cancer, at the age of 93.

References

Other websites
 Photograph of Walter Kohn:  
"Quantum Chemistry Comes of Age,"  The Chemical Educator, Vol. 5, No. 3, S1430-4171(99)06333-7, , © 2000 Springer-Verlag New York, Inc.
Freeview video interview with Walter Kohn by the Vega Science Trust
Official homepage of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1998
Kohn's faculty website  at University of California-Santa Barbara. Retrieved November 11, 2006.

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