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Walter Kohn (born March 9 , 1923 in Vienna , Austria ) is an Austrian-born American Physicist who was awarded, with John A. 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 a leading role in the development of the Density Functional Theory , which made it possible to incorporate Quantum Mechanical effects in the Electronic Density (rather than through its many-body Wavefunction ). This computational simplification led to many insights and became an essential tool for electronic materials, atomic and molecular structure. In 1957 , he became a Naturalized Citizen of the United States . He is currently a Professor Emeritus at the University Of California At Santa Barbara . He is a member of the International Academy Of Quantum Molecular Science . EXTERNAL LINKS |
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