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	Holocaust Survivor, Nobel Prize Winner: UCSB's Walter Kohn - Daily Nexus Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Kohn’s Nobel Prize, which was the first won by a professor at UCSB, reflected his skill as a researcher, but also on the school and the institutions whose reputations he helped build.
		Kohn was finally sent to Canada where, as a refugee, he worked as a lumberjack and used his 20 cents a day to support a habit of buying chemistry and math textbooks.
		Kohn’s directorship got the institute to that point, and the Nobel Prize for his research helped put the ITP and the school on the international map.
	www.ucsbdailynexus.com /news/2001/183.html (903 words)

	UCSD Science & Engineering
		Walter Kohn, the 1998 Nobel Prize winner in chemistry, will give a free public lecture at the University of California, San Diego on March 4.
		A physics professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, Kohn was awarded the 1998 Nobel Prize for his leading role in the development of density-functional theory, which has revolutionized scientists’ approach to the electronic structure of atoms, molecules and solid materials in physics, chemistry and materials science.
		Kohn served as chair of the UCSD Physics Department from 1961 to 1963 and chair of the Campus Academic Senate in 1968-1969.
	ucsdnews.ucsd.edu /newsrel/science/akohn.htm (345 words)

	Chemistry-Biochemistry University of Calfornia Santa Barbara
		Dr. Walter Kohn was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry on October 13, 1998 for his development of the density-functional theory.
		Walter Kohn is a condensed matter theorist who has made seminal contributions to the understanding of the electronic structure of materials.
		Professor Kohn was the founding director of the National Science Foundation's Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
	www.chem.ucsb.edu /people/faculty/kohn/index.shtml (174 words)

	leon pape memorial lecture 2000
		Physicist Walter Kohn was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry on October 13, 1998 for his development of the density-functional theory.
		Kohn, the first director of the Institute for Theoretical Physics, at UC Santa Barbara, and currently at the Department of Physics, UCSB www.physics.ucsb.edu, has received the 1998 Nobel Prize for Chemistry.
		Kohn, born in 1923, is a faculty member of the department of physics at UC Santa Barbara.
	www.calstatela.edu /univ/ppa/newsrel/lpape2000.htm (497 words)

	Dr.Walter Kohn (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Professor Walter Kohn was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1998 for his development of the density-functional theory.
		Walter Kohn’s strong commitment to a humane and peaceful world is significantly influenced by the fact that in 1938, as a sixteen-year-old boy living in Vienna, he witnessed the forceful annexation of his homeland Austria to Nazi Germany.
		Professor Kohn is a world-renowned researcher, a concerned scientist, and an individual with a strong Jewish identity.
	www.unr.edu /chgps/Dr.Kohn.htm (236 words)

	Nobel Prize winner Walter Kohn
		San Diego, CA (special) -- Dr. Walter Kohn, a former member of San Diego's Jewish community, was awarded this year's Nobel Prize in chemistry for work he did at UCSD to devise a mathematical formula to describe the relationships of atoms within complex molecules.
		His daughter, Ingrid Kohn, a licensed social worker with Jewish Family Service here in San Diego County, said there is a bittersweet aspect to her father's notification on Oct. 13 won the Nobel Prize.
		Kohn went on to attend the University of Toronto, where he met his first wife--Ingrid's mother--and later went to graduate school at Harvard University.
	www.jewishsightseeing.com /usa/california/san_diego/ucsd/19981106-kohn_nobelist.htm (521 words)

	Walter Kohn - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Walter Kohn (born March 9, 1923 in Vienna, Austria) is an Austrian-born American physicist who was awarded, with John A. Pople, the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1998.
		In particular, Kohn played a leading role in the development of the density functional theory, which made it possible to incorporate quantum mechanical effects in the electronic density (rather than through its many-body wavefunction).
		This computational simplification led to many insights and became an essential tool for electronic materials, atomic and molecular structure.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Walter_Kohn (154 words)

	University of Toronto: What "card-carrying" physicist won the 1998 Nobel Prize in chemistry? UofT grad and ...
		Kohn, who has received many honorary degrees, the first of which came from U of T in 1967, had long been considered a likely candidate for the Nobel; the only question was whether the award would come in chemistry or physics.
		Kohn showed that it sufficed only to know the average number of electrons at any point in space, rather than trying to establish the motion of each electron in every atom in a molecule.
		Kohn remains active in research today, mostly at the Institute for Theoretical Physics (ITP) at the University of California at Santa Barbara, where he was the founding director.
	www.newsandevents.utoronto.ca /bios/00/kohn.htm (682 words)

	Walter Kohn: Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1998 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Kohn and Pople were not professional chemists, but their researches led to important breakthroughs in chemical calculations.
		Kohn and Luttinger clarified many points in the application of the perturbation series to the calculation of the ground state properties.
		In the Kohn effect, Walter suggested that the image of this surface could be seen as kinks in the phonon dispersion curves obtained in neutron scattering.
	www.iisc.ernet.in /currsci/jun10/articles18.htm (1594 words)

	Nobel Focus: Chemistry by Computer
		Kohn's 1965 publication, with Lu Sham of the University of California at San Diego, described a procedure for deriving the electron density and energy, based on solving equations for a corresponding system of noninteracting electrons, which is much easier to manage.
		Kohn and Sham provided a simple approximation of this relationship, and it has served solid state physics for decades, allowing for most modern calculations of the "band structure" of electrons in solids, for example.
		Kohn and Pople received the Nobel Prize in chemistry for their contributions to computational chemistry, which is now used routinely as a tool by scientists in many fields.
	focus.aps.org /story/v2/st19 (666 words)

	t r u t h o u t - 41 Nobel Laureates Sign Against a War Without International Support
		Kohn, a Nobel chemist at the University of California at Santa Barbara, organized the declaration.
		Kohn said he eventually tried to contact all American Nobel laureates in science and economics, who are thought to number about 130.
		Patricia Halloran, an aide to Dr. Kohn, said that more signatures were expected in the next few days as laureates returned from foreign travels or caught up with their mail.
	www.truthout.org /docs_02/013003G.41.laureates.htm (497 words)

	Proofing
		On March 9, 1923, Walter Kohn was born in Vienna, Austria.
		When Austria joined Germany in 2015-1938, Kohn remembers seeing to his great horror that many of his professors began to wear swastikas even though it was illegal at that time to belong to the Nazi party.
		Kohn was recognized for developing the density functional theory of matter and Pople for his work in computational quantum chemistry.
	www.andrews.edu /german-americans/searchdisplay.asp?PersonID=1 (782 words)

	The Santa Barbara Independent (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Dr. Walter Kohn’s theoretical work on the distribution of negative charges in atoms and molecules eventually made possible computer-generated images of complex molecules such as proteins and predictions of their chemical behavior.
		Dr. Kohn has, if he wants it, reason to be less than hopeful about the prospects for human beings to live in peace with respect and dignity for all, reason to believe that ultimately the world must be meaningless.
		But Dr. Walter Kohn, a great physicist and human being, was kind enough to meet with me and share his thoughts on religion, science, and their relationship to larger personal and societal concerns.
	www.independent.com /cover/cover_0755.htm (3290 words)

	News Releases
		Kohn will be speaking from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m.
		Kohn, a physics professor at the University of California in Santa Barbara, was awarded the prestigious prize for development of density-functional theory, which simplifies the mathematical description of the bonding between atoms that make up molecules.
		Walter Kohn was born in Vienna, Austria, in 1923.
	www.csun.edu /~hfoao102/press_releases/fall00/chemist.html (351 words)

	U. of T. The Bulletin, October 26, 1998, Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Walter Kohn, whose work led to practical methods for computing the structure of complex molecules, won the most prestigious prize in the sciences earlier this month.
		Kohn, who has received many honorary degrees, the first of which came from U of T in 1967, had long been considered a likely candidate for the Nobel, according to Professor Allan Griffin of physics; the only question was whether the award would come in chemistry or in physics.
		Kohn’s theories are also used in calculating the properties of metals, alloys and semiconductors.
	www.newsandevents.utoronto.ca /bin/bulletin/oct26_98/art7.htm (531 words)

	THE 1998 NOBEL PRIZE FOR CHEMISTRY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		THE 1998 NOBEL PRIZE FOR CHEMISTRY goes to Walter Kohn of the University of California at Santa Barbara and John A. Pople of Northwestern University for their contributions toward establishing computational chemistry.
		Kohn's solution was "density-functional theory," which describes atomic and molecular bonding not by accounting for the motions of all the participating electrons, but rather by specifying the effective density of electrons, making the whole problem much more computationally tractable.
		Kohn was head of the Institute of Theoretical Physics in Santa Barbara for 1979-1984.
	newton.ex.ac.uk /aip/glimpse.txt/physnews.397.2.html (157 words)

	Science, Religion Forum Attracts Large Audience - Daily Nexus Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		UCSB Professor Emeritus Walter Kohn attracted a crowd worthy of a rock concert to Kohn Hall on Friday afternoon.
		Kohn, UCSB’s 1998 Nobel laureate, gave the inaugural lecture in the “Science, Religion and the Human Experience” forum - a three-year program dedicated to illuminating the relationship between science and religion.
		Kohn and the panelists later engaged in a question-and-answer session with the audience.
	www.ucsbdailynexus.com /news/2001/850.html (667 words)

	New Page 2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Walter was a co-winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in1998.
		He was cited for his development of the now-famous density functional theory for calculating the electronic structure of atoms, molecules and solids.
		Kohn was the founding director of the Institute of Theoretical Physics at Santa Barbara in 1979, probably the leading world centre for workshops in theoretical physics.
	www.physics.utoronto.ca /~graduate/new_students/Nobel_prize.html (357 words)

	UCSB Press Release: "NOBELIST WALTER KOHN: A NICE GUY WHO FINISHED FIRST"
		Freshly minted Nobel laureate Walter Kohn, an internationally renowned research professor in condensed matter physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara, has been lauded far and wide for his contributions to quantum chemistry and to his home campus.
		Over the years, Kohn's other activities have ranged from support for the local music scene, to opposing UC's peacetime nuclear weapons research, to being a long-time board member of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, to working for international peace, often through people-to-people efforts.
		Kohn recalls the special pleasure he felt in 1994 when, three years after his retirement, the ITP's new home was named in his honor.
	www.instadv.ucsb.edu /pa/display.aspx?pkey=256 (739 words)

	Cornell News: Walter Kohn gives Bethe lecture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		ITHACA, N.Y. -- Walter Kohn, professor of physics emeritus at the University of California at Santa Barbara and winner of the National Medal of Science, will be the Hans A. Bethe Lecturer at Cornell University.
		Kohn, a UCSB faculty member since 1979, is a theoretical physicist with expertise in condensed mater, or solid-state physics, and is credited with many contributions to the theory of the electronic structure of solids.
		Kohn earned an undergraduate degree in mathematics and physics and a master's degree in applied mathematics from the University of Toronto.
	www.news.cornell.edu /releases/Sept96/bethelecture.ltb.html (278 words)

	Untitled Document
		Walter Kohn delivered the inaugural Templeton Research Lecture at UC Santa Barbara to a packed Kohn Hall (Institute for Theoretical Physics) Main Seminar Room.
		Attendance was so overwhelming that audio speakers were placed in nearby hallways to accommodate the overflow, and a special video screening is planned in the near future for those who were turned away by the crowd.
		Walter Kohn delivers the lecture with his customary insight, wit, and charm.
	www.srhe.ucsb.edu /lectures/info/kohn.html (516 words)

	Access News Briefs: Computational Chemistry Comes of Age With Nobel Prize (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		This year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry, awarded to Walter Kohn and John Pople, affirms and legitimizes the status of the third leg of that tripod.
		As scientists working to extend the uses of computational science, we are very pleased that these chemists have been recognized at the highest level for their theoretical and computational contributions in a field whose outstanding contributors have long been laboratory chemists.
		The work of John Pople and of Walter Kohn provided the foundations for what was then a relatively new approach to research in chemistry.
	archive.ncsa.uiuc.edu /News/Access/Briefs/98Briefs/981102.Nobel-Chem.html (1190 words)

	Science & Technology at Scientific American.com: The 1998 Nobel Prizes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Walter Kohn of University of California at Santa Barbara is a physicist whose work formed the basis for simplifying the mathematics in descriptions of the bonding of atoms.
		With the techniques of Kohn and Pople, not only can scientists produce accurate renderings of the intricate folds of complex enzymes, they can study the composition of interstellar dust clouds and observe reactions between pollutants and ozone in the upper atmosphere.
		Both Kohn, who was born in Vienna, Austria, in 1923, and Pople, born in Burnham-on-Sea in Somerset, United Kingdom in 1925, are still active at their respective universities.
	www.sciam.com /article.cfm?articleID=000A6AB3-74CB-1CE2-95FB809EC588EF21&pageNumber=3&catID=4 (616 words)

	Harvard Gazette: Four GSAS Centennial Medals awarded
		Walter Kohn, Professor Emeritus of Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara, is one the world's most distinguished theorists in the field of solid state physics.
		Kohn pioneered the development of density functional theory, which forms the basis of much of the success that today's computational theorists have had in describing quantitatively the electronic properties of materials, particularly surfaces.
		In addition to serving as past president of the American Physical Society, Kohn was the founding director of the Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
	www.news.harvard.edu /gazette/2001/06.07/10-gsasmedals.html (671 words)

	Rep. Capps Honors Walter Kohn and America's Teachers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Speaker, with great pride I rise to congratulate Dr. Walter Kohn, one of the recipients of the Nobel Prize for chemistry.
		Kohn is a professor of physics at the University of California Santa Barbara, where my husband Walter taught for 30 years.
		Kohn’s contributions to chemistry and physics are immense.
	www.house.gov /capps/press25.htm (165 words)

	Press Release: The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1998 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Walter Kohn showed that it is not necessary to consider the motion of each individual electron: it suffices to know the average number of electrons located at any one point in space.
		Walter Kohn showed in 1964 that the total energy for a system described by the laws of quantum mechanics can be theoretically calculated if the electrons' spatial distribution (electron density) is known.
		The scientific work of Walter Kohn and John Pople has been crucial for the development of this new field of research.
	sunsite.iisc.ernet.in /nobel98/chemistry98.html (1855 words)

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