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Walter Kohn
Kohn at the 2012 Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting
Born	Walter Kohn (1923-03-09)March 9, 1923 Vienna, Austria
Died	April 19, 2016(2016-04-19) (aged 93) Santa Barbara, California, U.S.
Nationality	United States
Alma mater	University of Toronto, Harvard
Known for	Density functional theory
Spouse(s)	Lois (Adams)[1] Mara (Vishniac) Schiff[2]
Awards	Nobel Prize in Chemistry(1998), Buckley Prize
Scientific career
Fields	Physics
Institutions	UC Santa Barbara, UC San Diego
Doctoral advisor	Julian Schwinger

Walter Kohn (March 9, 1923 – April 19, 2016) was an Austrian-born American theoretical physicist of Jewish descent.

He was awarded, with John Pople, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1998.^[3]

Kohn was one of 20 Nobel Laureates^[4] who signed the "Stockholm memorandum" at the 3rd Nobel Laureate Symposium on Global Sustainability in Stockholm, Sweden on 18 May 2011.^[5]

Kohn died on April 19, 2016 at his home in Santa Barbara, California from jaw cancer, at the age of 93.^[6][7]

• Photograph of Walter Kohn: [1] Archived 2009-03-25 at the Wayback Machine
• "Quantum Chemistry Comes of Age," Archived 2007-10-10 at the Wayback Machine The Chemical Educator, Vol. 5, No. 3, S1430-4171(99)06333-7, doi:10.1007/s00897990333a, © 2000 Springer-Verlag New York, Inc.
• Freeview video interview with Walter Kohn by the Vega Science Trust
• Official homepage of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1998
• Kohn's faculty website Archived 2010-06-19 at the Wayback Machine at University of California-Santa Barbara. Retrieved November 11, 2006.

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