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Semiconductor Pioneer & Nobel Laureate Dr. Walter Kohn Has Died
- jonah 11y agoDr. Kohn was a World War II era Austrian-Jewish Harvard trained immigrant to the United States largely responsible for cementing our understanding of the way electricity flows through matter. This theory, called the Density Functional Theory, has changed the way we understand solid matter's relationship to electrical current and has helped physicists to vastly improve computational power, as just one example among many. Dr. Walter Kohn was a brilliant and humble man, a professor, research scientist and gentleman of the first rate, and UCSB's very first Nobel Laureate in Chemistry (even though he was actually a physicist.) http://web.physics.ucsb.edu/~kohn/ http://web.physics.ucsb.edu/~kohn/ http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1998/kohn-bio.html http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1...
- jonah 11y ago‘Physics isn’t what I do; it is what I am.’ http://dailynexus.com/2016-04-22/ucsb-professor-and-nobel-laureate-walter-kohn-passes-away-at-93/ http://dailynexus.com/2016-04-22/ucsb-professor-and-nobel-la...