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WALTER KOHN
SHORT BIOGRAPHY
Professor Kohn received his Ph.D. in nuclear physics from Harvard University. He has been a faculty member at Harvard, Carnegie Mellon University, and the University of California at San Diego and at Santa Barbara. He was the founding director of the Institute of Theoretical Physics of the National Science Foundation. At Bell Laboratories, he collaborated with William Shockley, the leader of the group that invented the transistor. He is currently a member of the Board of Governors of the Weizmann Institute in Israel and a member of the Advisory Committee on Basic Energy Sciences of the Department of Energy. He has received numerous awards including the Niels Bohr/Unesco Gold Medal, the National Medal of Science and the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He is the recipient of 11 honorary degrees from universities in North America and elsewhere. His current research deals with the electronic structure of solids and large molecules.
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