What is Walter Kohn?
{{Infobox scientist |name = Walter Kohn |image = Walter Kohn.jpg |caption = Kohn at the 2012 [[Nobel Laureate Meetings at Lindau|Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting]] |birth_name=Walter Kohn |birth_date = {{birth date|1923|3|9}} |birth_place = [[Vienna]], [[First Austrian Republic|Austria]] |death_date = {{death date and age|2016|4|19|1923|3|9}} |death_place = [[Santa Barbara, California|Santa Barbara]], [[California]], [[United States|U.S.]] |citizenship = |nationality = [[United States]] |field = [[Physics]] |work_institutions = [[UC Santa Barbara]], [[UC San Diego]] |alma_mater = [[University of Toronto]], [[Harvard]] |doctoral_advisor = [[Julian Schwinger]] |doctoral_students = |known_for = [[Density functional theory]] |author_abbrev_bot = |author_abbrev_zoo = |influences = |influenced = |prizes = [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]](1998), [[Buckley Prize]] |footnotes = |signature = |spouse=Lois (Adams)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/utsandiego/obituary.aspx?n=lois-m-kohn&pid=138764392|title=Lois M. Kohn Obituary|website=[[Legacy.com]] |publisher=}}</ref><br>Mara (Vishniac) Schiff<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/04/magazine/04shtetl-t.html|title=A Closer Reading of Roman Vishniac|first=Alana|last=Newhouse|date=1 April 2010|publisher=|via=NYTimes.com}}</ref> }} {{nobelprize|Chemistry}} '''Walter Kohn''' (March 9, 1923 &ndash; April 19, 2016) was an [[Austria]]n-born [[United States|American]] [[theoretical physicist]] of [[Jew]]ish descent. He was awarded, with [[John Pople]], the [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]] in 1998.<ref>[http://www.auslandsdienst.at/press/archive/austriaculture_1999.html From Exile to Excellence] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110531200733/http://www.auslandsdienst.at/press/archive/austriaculture_1999.html |date=2011-05-31 }}, by Karin Hanta (Austria Culture Vol. 9 No. 1 January/February 1999)</ref>