Walter Kohn

Physicist

1923-03-09

Quotes by Walter Kohn

• During one or two summers, as well as part-time during the school year, I worked for a small Canadian company which developed electrical instruments for military planes.

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• In particular, I established a reasonably accurate energy threshold for permanent displacement of a nucleus from its regular lattice position, substantially smaller than had been previously presumed.

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• I was fortunate to find an extraordinary mathematics and applied mathematics program in Toronto.

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• On another level, I want to mention that I have a strong Jewish identity and - over the years - have been involved in several Jewish projects, such as the establishment of a strong program of Judaic Studies at the University of California in San Diego.

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• I was born in 1923 into a middle class Jewish family in Vienna, a few years after the end of World War I, which was disastrous from the Austrian point of view.

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