Walter Kohn

Nobel Prize lecture

Nobel Lecture, January 28, 1999 (a year later)

Electronic Structure of Matter – Wave Functions and Density Functionals

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From Nobel Lectures, Chemistry 1996-2000, Editor Ingmar Grenthe, World Scientific Publishing Co., Singapore, 2003

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