Walter Kohn

Prize presentation

Due to extraordinary circumstances, the 1998 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, Walter Kohn, couldn’t attend the 1998 Nobel Prize Ceremony, but he received his Prize at the 1999 ceremony. See a video clip of Walter Kohn, receiving his Nobel Prize medal and diploma during the Nobel Prize Award Ceremony at the Concert Hall in Stockholm, Sweden, on 10 December 1999.

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