Walter Kohn
Subtitle: Personal Stories and Anecdotes Told by Friends and Collaborators
Contributors: Matthias Scheffler (Editor); Peter Weinberger (Editor)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: August 5, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 309
ISBN-13: 9783540008057
Subjects: Biography: general; Chemistry; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; Biography/Autobiography; General; Physics; Science / Physics; Scientists - General; 1923-; Anecdotes; Biography; Kohn, Walter,; Physicists; United States
First sentence: Walter was one of an exciting generation of students who showed up at Harvard right after the war, having all kinds of interesting backgrounds Los Alamos and other wartime labs, the military, refugees like Walter, mixed in with very young recent undergraduates For good reason, he took his studies very seriously, and he may have thought of me as rather light-weight in any case, we were not much more than acquainted, and went our separate ways, he to a postdoc in Europe and I to Bell Labs, having now become serious, since I had acquired a family to support.