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Walter Kohn

1923 - 2016

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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 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 calculate quantum mechanical electronic structure by equations involving the electronic density (rather than the many-body wavefunction). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Walter Kohn is the 301st most popular physicist (down from 284th in 2019), the 272nd most popular biography from Austria (up from 276th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Austrian Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Walter Kohn ranks 301 out of 851. Before him are Abdul Qadeer Khan, Zhores Alferov, Carl von Linde, Samuel C. C. Ting, Klaus Hasselmann, and Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker. After him are Friedrich Hund, Henry Way Kendall, Yuri Oganessian, Anna Mani, Freeman Dyson, and Alain Aspect.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1923, Walter Kohn ranks 54. Before him are Vladimir Gelfand, Aristides Pereira, Ahmet Ertegun, Yelena Bonner, Bert Trautmann, and Stjepan Bobek. After him are René Thom, Freeman Dyson, Mukesh, Stephanie Kwolek, Jorge Semprún, and Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya. Among people deceased in 2016, Walter Kohn ranks 73. Before him are Ettore Scola, Věra Čáslavská, George Martin, Hilary Putnam, Michel Galabru, and Iolanda Balaș. After him are Terry Wogan, Michel Tournier, Corry Brokken, Jayalalithaa, Patricio Aylwin, and Konstantinos Stephanopoulos.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Walter Kohn ranks 272 out of 1,424. Before him are Prince Felix of Bourbon-Parma (1893), Clemence of Austria (1262), Udo Jürgens (1934), Leopold Berchtold (1863), Franz Xaver Gruber (1787), and Thomas Klestil (1932). After him are Ernest Augustus, Duke of Brunswick (1887), Clemens Krauss (1893), Joseph Johann Adam, Prince of Liechtenstein (1690), Karl-Maria Kertbeny (1824), Walter Nowotny (1920), and Hans Hollein (1934).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Austria

Among physicists born in Austria, Walter Kohn ranks 9. Before him are Wolfgang Pauli (1900), Ludwig Boltzmann (1844), Christian Doppler (1803), Victor Francis Hess (1883), Victor Weisskopf (1908), and Anton Zeilinger (1945). After him are Otto Robert Frisch (1904), Fritjof Capra (1939), Berta Karlik (1904), Marian Smoluchowski (1872), Heinz von Foerster (1911), and Marietta Blau (1894).

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