biography
pronunciation:
[kohn]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1923– )
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| biography:
| Chemist, born in Vienna. He graduated from Harvard in 1948, and taught at Carnegie Mellon and at the University of California, San Diego (1960–79) and Santa Barbara (1979–91), where he was the founding director of the Institute of Theoretical Physics. He shared the 1998 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for his contribution to methods that can be used for theoretical studies of the properties of molecules and the chemical processes in which they are involved - specifically, for his development of the density-functional theory. |
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