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Walter Kohn
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Walter Kohn was an American physicist who lived from 1923 to 2016 and made significant contributions to the field of physics. His work has had important applications in science and technology, though the specific details of his achievements would require additional context to fully explain.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1923
- Works
- 6
Top works
- Walter Kohn
- Perspectives on the crisis of UNESCO
- Walter Kohn
- Collisions of light nuclei
- Collisions of light nuclei
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Group
- Origin
- Czechia
- Active from
- 2014
Discography
- Hlavou dolů2014
- Žijem Jen Jednou2015
- Hard2016
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5 total works indexed
- Self-Consistent Equations Including Exchange and Correlation Effects
· 1965 · cited 58,483x
- Inhomogeneous Electron Gas
· 1964 · cited 48,696x
- The Iron Cage Revisited: Institutional Isomorphism and Collective Rationality in Organizational Fields
· 1983 · cited 30,394x
- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,383x
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,341x
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Quotes
- “Paris somehow lends itself to conceptual new ideas. I don't know why it is. There is a certain magic to that city.”
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- Walter Kohn
- date of birth
- 1923-03-09
- Erdős number
- 3
- date of death
- 2016-04-19
- P8168
- Q228898
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Article
A banner on a lightpole at the University of California, Santa Barbara, commemorating Walter Kohn being awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1998.
Walter Kohn ( German pronunciation: [ˈvaltɐ ˈkoːn]; 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 understanding 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.