!!!Kohn, Walter

b. Vienna, March 9, 1923, physicist, Nobel Prize for Chemistry 1998 
(with John Pople) for his work in the field of theoretical solid-state 
chemistry and physics. Fled to Britain in 1939 to escape from National 
Socialism, then emigrated to Canada, studied mathematics and physics 
at the University of Toronto and Harvard University, USA, where he 
embarked on his scientific career in 1948; since 1991 Professor of 
Physics at the University of Santa Barbara, California. Work in the 
field of theoretical solid-state chemistry and physics 
(density-functional theory); laid the foundations for important 
computer-assisted calculation methods. Several theories and methods 
bear his name (Korringa-Kohn-Rostoker method, Hohenberg-Kohn theorem, 
Kohn-Sham equations etc.). More than 200 publications.


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