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Walter Kohn

Chemistry

Walter Kohn was an Austrian American theoretical physicist and theoretical chemist. He was awarded the 1998 Nobel Prize in Chemistry jointly with John Pople for developing density functional theory, a method for describing the electronic structure of molecules and materials that reshaped computational chemistry.

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