Birth Name:

Walter Kohn

Male

Birth Date:

Fri, Mar 09, 1923

Time of Birth:

Unknown (using Noon)

Place of Birth:

Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Age:

101

Zodiac Sign:

Pisces

Astrology Data:

Sun

17°

Pis

51'

About Walter Kohn

Walter Kohn (German pronunciation: [ˈvaltɐ ˈkoːn]; March 9, 1923 – April 19, 2016) was an Austrian-American theoretical physicist and theoretical chemist. He was awarded, with John 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 the leading role in the development of density functional theory, which made it possible to calculate quantum mechanical electronic structure by equations involving the electronic density (rather than the many-body wavefunction). This computational simplification led to more accurate calculations on complex systems as well as many new insights, and it has become an essential tool for materials science, condensed-phase physics, and the chemical physics of atoms and molecules.

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External Links:

• "Quantum Chemistry Comes of Age," 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

• Walter Kohn on Nobelprize.org including the Nobel Lecture, January 28, 1999 (a year later) Electronic Structure of Matter – Wave Functions and Density Functionals

• Kohn's faculty website at University of California-Santa Barbara. Retrieved November 11, 2006.

• Obituary

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Astrological aspects and planetary data / tags for Walter Kohn: Sun 17 Pisces, Moon 13 Sagittarius, Mercury 24 Aquarius, Venus 3 Aquarius, Mars 3 Taurus, Jupiter 18 Scorpio, Saturn 18 Libra, Uranus 13 Pisces, Neptune 15 Leo, Pluto 9 Cancer, Sun Trine Jupiter, Sun Quincunx Neptune, Sun Quincunx Saturn, Sun Semi Square Venus, Sun Semi Square Mars, Sun Conjunct Uranus, Mercury Sesquiquadrate Pluto, Venus Square Mars, Jupiter Semi Sextile Saturn, Jupiter Square Neptune, Saturn Sextile Neptune, Uranus Quincunx Neptune, Uranus Trine Pluto

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