Walter Kohn - Personal Stories and Anecdotes Told by Friends and Collaborators

Scheffler, Matthias; Weinberger, Peter

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-55609-8

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Walter Kohn - Personal Stories and Anecdotes Told by Friends and Collaborators

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Scheffler, Matthias
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Scheffler, M., & Weinberger, P. (Eds.). (2003). Walter Kohn - Personal Stories and Anecdotes Told by Friends and Collaborators. Berlin: Springer.

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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.