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Walter Kohn

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Walter Kohn
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Interviews | 18-22 and upwards | 15 years ago | 1836 views
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Walter Kohn is a condensed matter theorist who has made seminal contributions to the understanding of the electronic structure of materials. He played the leading role in the development of density functional theory, which has revolutionized scientis....

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Leo Esaki

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Leo Esaki
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Interviews | 18-22 and upwards | 15 years ago | 2636 views
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Leo Esaki is a Japanese physicist who shared half the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1973 with Ivar Giaever for the discovery of the phenomenon of electron tunneling. The second half of the prize was awarded to Brian David Josephson. He is known for his i....

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Herbert Kroemer

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Herbert Kroemer
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Interviews | 18-22 and upwards | 15 years ago | 1861 views
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In 2000 Herbert Kroemer, who was born in Germany, and works at UCSB in the USA shared half of the Nobel Prize for Physics with Zhores I. Alferov ( Russia ) 'for basic work on information and communication technology' and in particular 'for developing....

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