Walter Kohn

Walter Kohn (March 9, 1923 – April 19, 2016) was an Austrian-born American theoretical physicist of Jewish descent.

Walter Kohn
Kohn at the 2012 Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting
Born	Walter Kohn (1923-03-09)March 9, 1923 Vienna, Austria
Died	April 19, 2016(2016-04-19) (aged 93) Santa Barbara, California, U.S.
Nationality	United States
Alma mater	University of Toronto, Harvard
Known for	Density functional theory
Spouse(s)	Lois (Adams)[1] Mara (Vishniac) Schiff[2]
Awards	Nobel Prize in Chemistry(1998), Buckley Prize
Scientific career
Fields	Physics
Institutions	UC Santa Barbara, UC San Diego
Doctoral advisor	Julian Schwinger

He was awarded, with John Pople, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1998.^[3]

Kohn was one of 20 Nobel Laureates^[4] who signed the "Stockholm memorandum" at the 3rd Nobel Laureate Symposium on Global Sustainability in Stockholm, Sweden on 18 May 2011.^[5]

Kohn died on April 19, 2016 at his home in Santa Barbara, California from jaw cancer, at the age of 93.^[6][7]