| LC control no. | n 87873532 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Kohn, Walter, 1923-2016 |
| Variant(s) | Kohn, W. (Walter), 1923-2016 |
| Associated country | United States |
| Birth date | 1923-03-09 |
| Death date | 2016-04-19 |
| Place of birth | Vienna (Austria) |
| Place of death | Santa Barbara (Calif.) |
| Field of activity | Physics Density functionals |
| Affiliation | University of California, Santa Barbara University of California, San Diego Carnegie Institute of Technology Harvard University |
| Profession or occupation | Nobel Prize winners Physicists College teachers |
| Found in | Perspectives on the crisis of UNESCO, c1987: t.p. (Walter Kohn) p. 56 (prof., Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Calif., Santa Barbara) AMWS, 13th ed., 1982 (Kohn, Walter, b. 3-9-23) Variational methods for dispersion relations and elastic properties of composite materials, 1971: cover (W. Kohn, Department of Physics, University of California, San Diego, San Diego, Calif.) New York times WWW site, viewed Apr. 26, 2016 (in obituary published Apr. 25: Walter Kohn; b. Mar. 9, 1923, Vienna; sent to England on a Kindertransport rescue convoy for refugees; later sent to Canada; earned his doctorate in physics at Harvard University; d. last Tuesday [Apr. 19, 2016], Santa Barbara, Calif., aged 93; Austrian-born American scientist and former refugee who in 1998 shared a Nobel Prize in Chemistry. a subject that he had last formally studied in high school) |
| Associated language | eng |
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