Title:
Walter Kohn and the Creation of Density Functional Theory

dc.contributor.author Zangwill, Andrew
dc.contributor.corporatename Georgia Institute of Technology. School of Physics en_US
dc.date.accessioned 2014-09-29T16:21:07Z
dc.date.available 2014-09-29T16:21:07Z
dc.date.issued 2014-09-22
dc.description Presented on September 22, 2014 in the Pettit Building room 102 A&B at 3:00 p.m.
dc.description Andrew Zangwill is a Professor in the School of Physics at Georgia Tech. He received his B.S. in Physics from Carnegie-Mellon University and his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Pennsylvania in 1981.
dc.description Runtime: 64:00 minutes
dc.description.abstract The theoretical physicist Walter Kohn was awarded one-half the 1998 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for his mid-1960's creation of an approach to the many-particle problem in quantum mechanics called density functional theory (DFT). DFT establishes that the ground state charge density provides a complete description of ALL the properties of any atom, molecule, or solid. This was a breakthrough (both conceptually and computationally) because it had been presumed previously that the vastly more complicated many-electron wave function was essential for this purpose. In this talk, I present a biographical sketch of Kohn's unusual educational experiences and the events in his professional career which led him to create DFT. A coda explains how the chemists came to award "their" Nobel prize to a card-carrying physicist. en_US
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dc.format.extent 64:00 minutes
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/1853/52397
dc.publisher Georgia Institute of Technology en_US
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dc.subject Density funtional theory en_US
dc.subject Walter Kohn en_US
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