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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 eq
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Walter Kohn dies at 93; UC Santa Barbara physicist shared Nobel Prize in chemistry
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Chemistry Nobel Laureate Walter Kohn dies at age 93 - Chemical & Engineering News