Quotes by Walter Kohn - Page 1

My commitment to a humane and peaceful world continues to this day.
Walter Kohn / Physicist
Love
Peace
Commitment
Humane
Peaceful
Peaceful World
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I was fortunate to find an extraordinary mathematics and applied mathematics program in Toronto.
Walter Kohn / Physicist
Extraordinary
Fortunate
Mathematics
Program
Toronto
Applied
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Originally I had planned to revert to nuclear physics there, in particular the structure of the deuteron.
Walter Kohn / Physicist
Nuclear
Nuclear Physics
Particular
Physics
Structure
Originally
Planned
Revert
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My father, who had lost a brother, fighting on the Austrian side in World War I, was a committed pacifist.
Walter Kohn / Physicist
War
Brother
Committed
Father
Fighting
Pacifist
World War I
War World Fighting
War World Father
World War
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I was born in 1923 into a middle class Jewish family in Vienna, a few years after the end of World War I, which was disastrous from the Austrian point of view.
Walter Kohn / Physicist
War
Middle Class
Point Of View
Vienna
Views
World War I
Years
Jewish
War Family World
Disastrous
World War
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During one or two summers, as well as part-time during the school year, I worked for a small Canadian company which developed electrical instruments for military planes.
Walter Kohn / Physicist
Electrical
Instruments
Military
Part Time
Planes
School
Summer
Developed
One Or Two
Summers
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My project was radiation damage of Si and Ge by energetic electrons, critical for the use of the recently developed semiconductor devices for applications in outer space.
Walter Kohn / Physicist
Critical
Damage
Energetic
Outer Space
Radiation
Applications
Developed
Electron
Project
Ge
Outer
Recently
Semiconductor
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I have just joined the Board of the Population Institute because I am convinced that early stabilization of the world's population is important for the attainment of this objective.
Walter Kohn / Physicist
Attainment
Boards
Important
Institute
Population
World I Am Important
Board
Joined
Objective
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In particular, I established a reasonably accurate energy threshold for permanent displacement of a nucleus from its regular lattice position, substantially smaller than had been previously presumed.
Walter Kohn / Physicist
Accurate
Displacement
Particular
Permanent
Threshold
Established
Reasonably
Smaller
Substantially
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However, while the Nazi barbarians and their collaborators threatened the entire world, I could not accept his philosophy and, after several earlier attempts, was finally accepted into the Canadian Infantry Corps during the last year of World War II.
Walter Kohn / Physicist
Accepted
Barbarians
Collaborators
Infantry
Last Year
Threatened
World War Ii
Attempts
Corps
Earlier
Entire World
Finally
However
Several
World War
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On another level, I want to mention that I have a strong Jewish identity and - over the years - have been involved in several Jewish projects, such as the establishment of a strong program of Judaic Studies at the University of California in San Diego.
Walter Kohn / Physicist
California
Establishment
Identity
Jewish Identity
Program
San Diego
Strong
University
Years
Jewish
Diego
Mention
San
Several
Studies
University Of California
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I am very much a scientist, and so I naturally have thought about religion also through the eyes of a scientist. When I do that, I see religion not denominationally, but in a more, let us say, deistic sense. I have been influence in my thinking by the writing of Einstein who has made remarks to the effect that when he contemplated the world he sensed an underlying Force much greater than any human force. I feel very much the same. There is a sense of awe, a sense of reverence, and a sense of great mystery.
Walter Kohn / Physicist
Eye
Thinking
Writing
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