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- NAME: Walter Kohn
- OCCUPATION: Chemist, Physicist
- BIRTH DATE: March 09, 1923 (Age: 90)
- EDUCATION: University of Toronto, Harvard University
- PLACE OF BIRTH: Vienna, Austria
- ZODIAC SIGN: Pisces
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Walter Kohn is a physicist who won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1998 for his work in quantum chemistry.
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Walter Kohn's work centered on the use of quantum mechanics to understand electron bonding between atoms to form molecules. He found that the total energy of an atomic or molecular system could be calculated if the spatial distribution of all electrons within that system were known, which simplified the computations needed to understand the electron bonding between atoms within molecules.© 2013 A+E Networks. All rights reserved.
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