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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...
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  • put on a firm theoretical footing by Walter Kohn and Pierre Hohenberg in the framework of the two Hohenberg–Kohn theorems (HK). The original HK theorems...
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  • Kohn–Sham equations are named after Walter Kohn and Lu Jeu Sham, who introduced the concept at the University of California, San Diego, in 1965. Kohn...
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  • A Kohn anomaly or the Kohn effect is an anomaly in the dispersion relation of a phonon branch in a metal. The anomaly is named for Walter Kohn, who first...
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  • 1938) is an American physicist. He is best known for his work with Walter Kohn on the Kohn–Sham equations. Lu Jeu Sham's family was from Fuzhou, Fujian, but...
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  • composer Sonja Kohn (born 1948), Austrian banker Walter Kohn (1923–2016), Austrian-American theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate Yetta Kohn (1843–1917)...
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    hidden in orphanages and children's homes. Others, such as Hans Bethe, Walter Kohn, Otto Stern, Albert Einstein, Hans Krebs and Martin Karplus fled Nazi...
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  • Graves was added in 2003–2004. The directors of the KITP have been: Walter Kohn, 1979–1984 (Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1998) Robert Schrieffer, 1984–1989...
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  • faculty: David Gross (2004, Physics), Alan J. Heeger (2000, Chemistry), and Walter Kohn (1998, Chemistry). Physics Nobel Prize winners Herbert Kroemer (2000)...
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    of the Economics Department and professor of Environmental Economics Walter Kohn, founding director, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, research...
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  • profiles.) Benno Kohn died in 1929. Management then consisted of Irving Kohn (Louis' son) president; Walter Sondheim and Walter Kohn, vice-presidents...
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  • model by J.R. Schrieffer and P.A. Wolff., Joaquin Mazdak Luttinger and Walter Kohn used this method in an earlier work about non-periodic k·p perturbation...
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  • Jelinek, Literature, 2004 Eric Kandel*, Physiology or Medicine, 2000 Walter Kohn*, Chemistry, 1998 Friedrich Hayek, Economics, 1974 Konrad Lorenz, Physiology...
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  • Kohn–Luttinger superconductivity is a theoretical mechanism for unconventional superconductivity proposed by Walter Kohn and Joaquin Mazdak Luttinger based...
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    librarian Walter Kaufmann (from Germany), Australian and German author Peter Kinley (from Vienna), born Peter Schwarz in 1926, British artist Walter Kohn (from...
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    Nobel prizes: Roy Glauber, Benjamin Roy Mottelson, Sheldon Glashow and Walter Kohn (in chemistry). Schwinger had a mixed relationship with his colleagues...
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  • specifically in the framework of the Luttinger–Kohn model (after Joaquin Mazdak Luttinger and Walter Kohn), and of the Kane model (after Evan O. Kane)....
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    Smalley 1997: Paul D. Boyer / John E. Walker / Jens Christian Skou 1998: Walter Kohn / John Pople 1999: Ahmed Zewail 2000: Alan J. Heeger / Alan MacDiarmid...
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    Nobel Prize in Physics Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin (1727–1817), chemist Walter Kohn (1923–2016), Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1998 Georg Kreisel (1923–2015)...
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  • highlighted by the awarding of the 1998 Nobel prize to John Pople and Walter Kohn. The term ab initio was first used in quantum chemistry by Robert Parr...
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    theoretical chemist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Walter Kohn in 1998 for his development of computational methods in quantum chemistry...
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    as by famous physicists from abroad including Walter Heitler, Léon van Hove, Emilio Segrè, Walter Kohn and Wolfgang Pauli. The first lessons were given...
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  • 2023) 1923 – André Courrèges, French fashion designer (d. 2016) 1923 – Walter Kohn, Austrian-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2016)...
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  • functionals. The local-density approximation was first introduced by Walter Kohn and Lu Jeu Sham in 1965. Local density approximations, as with GGAs are...
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  • primarily on statistical mechanics. The Hohenberg-Kohn theorems, formulated by Hohenberg and Walter Kohn gave rise to the density functional theory (DFT)...
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    electron gas case can be solved exactly.: 330–337  Finally in 1964–65, Walter Kohn, Pierre Hohenberg and Lu Jeu Sham proposed the density functional theory...
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    include Arthur Dempster, Clifford Dowker, Donald Fraser, Irving Kaplansky, Walter Kohn, J. Carson Mark (Ph.D. 1938), Nathan Mendelsohn, John Mighton (Ph.D....
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  • a drug that works against urinary tract infections Kohn–Sham equations, named after Walter Kohn and Lu Jeu Sham Sham Chun River, on the border of Hong...
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  • York, [2]. Walter Kohn, "Joaquin M. Luttinger", Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences (2014) Clary, David C., Walter Kohn: From Kindertransport...
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    Scholes 1998 Robert B. Laughlin; Horst Ludwig Störmer; Daniel C. Tsui Walter Kohn; John Pople Robert F. Furchgott; Louis Ignarro; Ferid Murad José Saramago...
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