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