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The President's National Medal of Science: Recipient Details

Walter Kohn

Title:

Professor of Physics

Affiliation:

University of California, Santa Barbara

Santa Barbara,California 93106 USA

Gender:

Male

Year Deceased:

2016

Award Discipline:

Physical Sciences

Award Year:

1988

Citation:

"For his pioneering fundamental contributions to the theory of the electronic structure of solids, including the effective mass approach to defects in semiconductors, the so-called KKR method of band structure, and, most importantly, the density functional approach to the many-electron problem which has led to great advances in the understanding of bulk solids and solid surfaces."

Presented by President Reagan in a White House ceremony on July 15, 1988.

Nobel Laureate:

Chemistry, 1998

 

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