Walter Kohn

Research.com Recognitions

• 2002 - Three Physicists Prize (Prix des trois physiciens), École Normale Supérieure (ENS)
• 1998 - Nobel Prize for his development of the density-functional theory
• 1998 - UNESCO Niels Bohr Medal
• 1988 - US President's National Medal of Science "For his pioneering fundamental contributions to the theory of the electronic structure of solids, including the effective mass approach to defects in semiconductors, the so-called KKR method of band structure, and, most importantly, the density functional approach to the many-electron problem which has led to great advances in the understanding of bulk solids and solid surfaces.", Presented by President Reagan in a White House ceremony on July 15, 1988.
• 1977 - Davisson–Germer Prize in Atomic or Surface Physics, American Physical Society
• 1975 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
• 1969 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
• 1963 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
• 1961 - Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize, American Physical Society For his extension and elucidation of the foundations of the electron theory of solids
• 1960 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS)

Overview

Best Publications

• Self-Consistent Equations Including Exchange and Correlation Effects

  W. Kohn;L. J. Sham

  74564
  Citations

• Inhomogeneous Electron Gas

  P. C. Hohenberg;Walter Kohn

  62066
  Citations

• Density Functional Theory of Electronic Structure

  W. Kohn;and A. D. Becke;R. G. Parr

  4684
  Citations

• Motion of Electrons and Holes in Perturbed Periodic Fields

  J. M. Luttinger;W. Kohn

  3372
  Citations

• Nobel Lecture: Electronic structure of matter-wave functions and density functionals

  W. Kohn

  3152
  Citations

• Theory of Metal Surfaces: Charge Density and Surface Energy

  N. D. Lang;W. Kohn

  2317
  Citations

• Solution of the Schrödinger Equation in Periodic Lattices with an Application to Metallic Lithium

  W. Kohn;N. Rostoker

  1843
  Citations

• Theory of Metal Surfaces: Work Function

  N. D. Lang;W. Kohn;W. Kohn

  1774
  Citations

• Time-dependent density-functional theory

  E.K.U. Gross;W. Kohn

  1352
  Citations

• ONE-PARTICLE PROPERTIES OF AN INHOMOGENEOUS INTERACTING ELECTRON GAS.

  L. J. Sham;W. Kohn

  1341
  Citations

• Local density-functional theory of frequency-dependent linear response.

  E. K. U. Gross;Walter Kohn

  1298
  Citations

• Density functional and density matrix method scaling linearly with the number of atoms.

  W. Kohn

  1213
  Citations

• Analytic Properties of Bloch Waves and Wannier Functions

  W. Kohn

  1211
  Citations

• Cyclotron Resonance and de Haas-van Alphen Oscillations of an Interacting Electron Gas

  Walter Kohn

  1207
  Citations

• Image of the Fermi Surface in the Vibration Spectrum of a Metal

  W. Kohn

  1102
  Citations

• Theory of Metal Surfaces: Induced Surface Charge and Image Potential

  Norton Lang;Walter Kohn

  1033
  Citations

• THEORY OF THE INSULATING STATE

  Walter Kohn

  926
  Citations

• New mechanism for superconductivity

  W. Kohn;J. M. Luttinger

  865
  Citations

• Quantum Density Oscillations in an Inhomogeneous Electron Gas

  W. Kohn;L. J. Sham

  829
  Citations

• Theory of Donor States in Silicon

  W. Kohn;J. M. Luttinger

  796
  Citations