The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1998
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Walter Kohn
Prize share: 1/2
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John A. Pople
Prize share: 1/2
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1998 was divided equally between Walter Kohn "for his development of the density-functional theory" and John A. Pople "for his development of computational methods in quantum chemistry"
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