"Originally I had planned to revert to nuclear……" — Walter Kohn
"Originally I had planned to revert to nuclear physics there, in particular the structure of the deuteron."
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12 Quotes by Walter Kohn
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- I was born in 1923 into a middle class Jewish family in Vienna, a few years after the end of…
- My father, who had lost a brother, fighting on the Austrian side in World War I, was a committed pacifist.
- My commitment to a humane and peaceful world continues to this day.
- I was fortunate to find an extraordinary mathematics and applied mathematics program in Toronto.
- On another level, I want to mention that I have a strong Jewish identity and - over the years -…
- During one or two summers, as well as part-time during the school year, I worked for a small Canadian company…
- I have just joined the Board of the Population Institute because I am convinced that early stabilization of the world's…
- I am very much a scientist, and so I naturally have thought about religion also through the eyes of a…
- However, while the Nazi barbarians and their collaborators threatened the entire world, I could not accept his philosophy and, after…
- My project was radiation damage of Si and Ge by energetic electrons, critical for the use of the recently developed…
- In particular, I established a reasonably accurate energy threshold for permanent displacement of a nucleus from its regular lattice position,…
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