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

Walter Kohn: Personal Stories and Anecdotes Told by Friends and Collaborators
ISBN-10
3642556094
ISBN-13
9783642556098
Category
Science
Pages
310
Language
English
Published
2011-06-28
Publisher
Springer Science & Business Media
Authors
Peter Weinberger, Matthias Scheffler

Description

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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