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- Provides a personal view of the life of the Nobel Price laureat Walter Kohn
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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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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Book Title: Walter Kohn
Book Subtitle: Personal Stories and Anecdotes Told by Friends and Collaborators
Editors: Matthias Scheffler, Peter Weinberger
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-55609-8
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2003
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-00805-7Due: 21 May 2003
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-540-20809-9Published: 18 March 2004
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-55609-8Published: 28 June 2011
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 310
Topics: Physics, general, Physical Chemistry
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