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Thursday, April 28, 2016

Walter Kohn dies at 93; UC Santa Barbara physicist shared Nobel Prize in chemistry

Walter Kohn, a UC Santa Barbara physicist who shared a Nobel Prize for a widely used theory in materials science — and who warned that "science is both a wonderful and terrible force in our world" — died April 19. He was 93.

Kohn's health had declined in recent months after he broke his hip in...



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