The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1998

Walter Kohn

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Prize share: 1/2

John A. Pople

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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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