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Walter Kohn

"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."

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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."

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"When I was about seven, I started touring the globe as part of New York's La MaMa theater company - without my parents!"

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"I've never had a relationship with a record executive. I always went to the record company by someone that liked my playing. Then they would get fired, and I'd be left with the record company. And then - because they got fired - the record company wouldn't do anything for me."

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"I've been lucky to be able to make the records I've wanted to make. The record company has never pressured me to cut certain songs."

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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."
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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."
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"My father, who had lost a brother, fighting on the Austrian side in World War I, was a committed pacifist."
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"I was fortunate to find an extraordinary mathematics and applied mathematics program in Toronto."
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"My commitment to a humane and peaceful world continues to this day."
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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."
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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."
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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."
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