This is not a science book, nor even a book about science, although most of the contributors are scientists. It is a book of personal stories about Walter Kohn, a theoretical physicist and winner of half of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Walter Kohn originated and/or refined a number of very important theoretical approaches and concepts in solid-state physics. He is known in particular for Density-Functional Theory. This book represents a kind of "oral history" about him, gathered - in anticipation of his 80th birthday - from former students, collaborators, fellow-scientists, and friends.
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This is not a science book, nor even a book about science, although most of the contributors are scientists. It is a book of personal stories about Walter Kohn, a theoretical physicist and winner of half of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Walter Kohn originated and/or refined a number of very important theoretical approaches and concepts in solid-state physics. He is known in particular for Density-Functional Theory. This book represents a kind of "oral history" about him, gathered - in anticipation of his 80th birthday - from former students, collaborators, fellow-scientists, and friends.
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Walter was one of an exciting generation of students who showed up at Harvard right after the war, having all kinds of interesting backgrounds Los Alamos and other wartime labs, the military, refugees like Walter, mixed in with very young recent undergraduates For good reason, he took his studies very seriously, and he may have thought of me as rather light-weight in any case, we were not much more than acquainted, and went our separate ways, he to a postdoc in Europe and I to Bell Labs, having now become serious, since I had acquired a family to support. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Walter Kohn, Santa Barbara, San Diego, New York, Professor Kohn, North Carolina, Boris Regal, John Bardeen, Carnegie Tech, Los Alamos, Los Angeles, Cornell University, United States, Chapel Hill, Duke University, Harnack House, Norton Lang, André Blandin, Kohn Sham, Physical Review Letters, Quin Luttinger, Roman Vishniac, Sandia National Laboratories, University of Toronto, Boris Kayser New!
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Walter was one of an exciting generation of students who showed up at Harvard right after the war, having all kinds of interesting backgrounds Los Alamos and other wartime labs, the military, refugees like Walter, mixed in with very young recent undergraduates For good reason, he took his studies very seriously, and he may have thought of me as rather light-weight in any case, we were not much more than acquainted, and went our separate ways, he to a postdoc in Europe and I to Bell Labs, having now become serious, since I had acquired a family to support. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Walter Kohn, Santa Barbara, San Diego, New York, Professor Kohn, North Carolina, Boris Regal, John Bardeen, Carnegie Tech, Los Alamos, Los Angeles, Cornell University, United States, Chapel Hill, Duke University, Harnack House, Norton Lang, André Blandin, Kohn Sham, Physical Review Letters, Quin Luttinger, Roman Vishniac, Sandia National Laboratories, University of Toronto, Boris Kayser New!
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- Quantum Chemistry by Henry Eyring on 4 pages
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- The Modern Theory of Solids by Frederick Seitz on page 247, and Back Matter
- Wolfgang Pauli (Scientific Correspondence With Bohr, Einstein, Heisenberg, a.O./Volume I : 1919-1929) by A. Hermann on page 260
- A Vanished World by Roman Vishniac on page 119
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