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  • Walter Kohn
  • Walter Kohn (born March 9, 1923, in Vienna, Austria) is an Austrian-born American theoretical physicist. He was awarded, with John Pople, the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1998.

    Kohn received a war-time bachelor's degree in applied mathematics at the end of his one-year army service, having completed only 2 1/2 out of the 4-year undergraduate program, from the University of Toronto in 1945; he was awarded an M.A. degree in applied mathematics by Toronto in 1946. Kohn was awarded a Ph.D. degree in physics by Harvard University in 1948.
    In 1960 he moved to the newly founded University of California, San Diego, held a term as the physics department chair, and remained until 1979.
    He took his present position as a professor at University of California at Santa Barbara in 1984; he is currently a Professor Emeritus.
    In 2004, 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.
    He is a member of the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science.

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