Critical Quote by Walter Kohn

“My project was radiation damage of Si and Ge by energetic electrons, critical for the use of the recently developed semiconductor devices for applications in outer space.” quote by Walter Kohn — Download Open image

“My project was radiation damage of Si and Ge by energetic electrons, critical for the use of the recently developed semiconductor devices for applications in outer space.”

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

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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…

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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…

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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…

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I have just joined the Board of the Population Institute because I am convinced that early stabilization of the world's population is important for…

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However, while the Nazi barbarians and their collaborators threatened the entire world, I could not accept his philosophy and, after several earlier attempts, was…

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I am very much a scientist, and so I naturally have thought about religion also through the eyes of a scientist. When I do that, I see religion not denominationally, but in a more, let us say, deistic sense. I have been influence in my thinking by the writing of Einstein who has made remarks to the effect that when…

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Originally I had planned to revert to nuclear physics there, in particular the structure of the deuteron.

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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…

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My commitment to a humane and peaceful world continues to this day.

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My father, who had lost a brother, fighting on the Austrian side in World War I, was a committed pacifist.

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