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Walter Kohn and the Creation of Density Functional Theory
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 |
dc.embargo.terms | null | en_US |
dc.format.extent | 64:00 minutes | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1853/52397 | |
dc.publisher | Georgia Institute of Technology | en_US |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | Physics Colloquium | |
dc.subject | Density funtional theory | en_US |
dc.subject | Walter Kohn | en_US |
dc.title | Walter Kohn and the Creation of Density Functional Theory | en_US |
dc.type | Moving Image | |
dc.type.genre | Lecture | |
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local.contributor.author | Zangwill, Andrew | |
local.contributor.corporatename | College of Sciences | |
local.contributor.corporatename | School of Physics | |
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