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Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize (17) |
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Three Physicists Prize (4) |
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UNESCO Niels Bohr Medal (3) |
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| complete name: |
Walter Kohn |
| nobel prize: |
chemistry |
| award year: |
1998 |
| together with: |
John Pople |
| prize share: |
Prize share: 1/2 |
| rational: |
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1998 was divided equally between Walter Kohn "for his development of the density-functional theory" and John A. Pople "for his development of computational methods in quantum chemistry." |
| biography: |
Biography |
| laureate facts: |
Facts |
| laureate lecture: |
Lecture |
| given name: |
Walter |
| family name: |
Kohn |
| occupation: |
physicist |
| occupation: |
university teacher |
| field of work: |
theoretical physics |
| work location: |
University of California, Santa Barbara, 5221 Cheadle Hall, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, United States of America |
| description: |
Walter Kohn was an Austrian-born 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 incorporate quantum mechanical effects in the electronic density (rather than through its many-body wavefunction). This computational simplification led to many insights and became an essential tool for electronic materials, atomic and molecular structure. |
| image copyright: |
Photo from the Nobel Foundation archive. |
| image citation: |
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1998. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Media AB 2018. <https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/1998/summary/> |
| date birth: |
1923 |
| date death: |
2016 |
| usual name: |
Walter Kohn |
