Walter Kohn dies at 93; UC Santa Barbara physicist shared Nobel Prize in chemistry
Thursday, April 28, 2016 - 20:41
in Physics & 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...