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Walter Kohn

"Originally I had planned to revert to nuclear physics there, in particular the structure of the deuteron."

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Assegid Habtewold

"Just the actual physics of putting it all together, you know, the latter period is actually quite fragmented in terms of the licenses and all those things so it makes a compilation of the full twenty years really a technical minefield."

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Assegid Habtewold

"Cambridge was the place for someone from the Colonies or the Dominions to go on to, and it was to the Cavendish Laboratory that one went to do physics."

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Assegid Habtewold

"Chemistry has been termed by the physicist as the messy part of physics, but that is no reason why the physicists should be permitted to make a mess of chemistry when they invade it."

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Assegid Habtewold

"Originally I had planned to revert to nuclear physics there, in particular the structure of the deuteron."

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"Well, I'm leaning probably toward the sciences like physics."

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"We live in a universe made up of energy. The energy that binds, as it whirls and swirls physical atoms, exists at varying levels of vibration and frequency."

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"We are like some particle in motion always moving and meeting other particle."

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"I do not keep up with the details of particle physics."

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"Physics has the cutest words."

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"An immovable object and an unstoppable force don't exist in universe which ruled by single ruler."

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Walter Kohn
"Originally I had planned to revert to nuclear physics there, in particular the structure of the deuteron."

Physics

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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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Walter Kohn
"I was fortunate to find an extraordinary mathematics and applied mathematics program in Toronto."

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Walter Kohn
"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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Walter Kohn
"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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Walter Kohn
"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."

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Walter Kohn
"My father, who had lost a brother, fighting on the Austrian side in World War I, was a committed pacifist."

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Walter Kohn
"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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Walter Kohn
"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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Walter Kohn
"My commitment to a humane and peaceful world continues to this day."

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