Jewish Journal: Walter Kohn, refugee and Nobel Laureate, dies at 93
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Walter Kohn
Walter Kohn 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…
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Born 9 March 1923 · Died 19 April 2016 · Q78510
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2016· 4 entries
DiePresse: Nachruf Walter Kohn: Ein Vater der Computerchemie
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At his home in Santa Barbara, California from jaw cancer, at the age of 93
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Died 2016-04-19.
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2012· 2 entries
Awarded honorary doctor of the University of Vienna (2012).
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Awarded honorary doctor of Harvard University (2012).
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2011· 1 entry
Became an honorary member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW)
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2004· 1 entry
A study of all citations to the Physical Review journals from 1893 until 2003, found Kohn to be an author of five of the 100 papers with the "highest citation impact", including the first two
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2003· 1 entry
idw: Ehrendoktorwürde für Nobelpreisträger Prof. Dr. Walter Kohn am 11. Juni um 17.15 Uhr
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2002· 2 entries
Awarded Three Physicists Prize (2002).
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Awarded honorary doctor of the Dresden University of Technology (2002).
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2001· 1 entry
Won Harvard Centennial Medal (2001).
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1999· 1 entry
Awarded Austrian Decoration for Science and Art (1999).
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1998· 5 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry — for his development of the density-functional theory.
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Won UNESCO Niels Bohr Medal (1998).
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1998).
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Awarded Foreign Member of the Royal Society (1998).
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Austrian Decoration for Science and Art (1999)
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1997· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctorate of the Weizmann Institute of Science (1997).
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1991· 1 entry
Won Feenberg Medal (1991).
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1988· 1 entry
Won National Medal of Science (1988).
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1980· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctorate from University of Paris-XI (1980).
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1977· 1 entry
Awarded Davisson–Germer Prize in Atomic or Surface Physics (1977).
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1965· 1 entry
Published “Self-Consistent Equations Including Exchange and Correlation Effects” in Physical Review — cited 59,352 times.
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1964· 1 entry
Published “Inhomogeneous Electron Gas” in Physical Review — cited 49,330 times.
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1963· 1 entry
Kohn became a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1969, and a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1994
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1961· 1 entry
Awarded Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize (1961).
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1960· 1 entry
Moved to the newly founded University of California, San Diego, held a term as the physics department chair, and remained until 1979
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1957· 1 entry
Relinquished his Canadian citizenship and became a naturalized citizen of the United States
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1948· 1 entry
Where he worked under Julian Schwinger on the three-body scattering problem
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1923· 1 entry
Born 1923-03-09.
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