Walter Kohn:
Walter Kohn is an Austrian-American mathematical physicist and Nobel laureate.
Birth:
March 9, 1923 in Vienna, Austria
Claim to Fame:
Kohn is an Austrian-American mathematical physicist who shares the 1998 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with John Pople for his research into the density-functional theory which ties quantum mechanics with the electronic density. He also contributed to the studies of semiconductors, superconductors and surface physics.
