I was born in 1923 into a m... by Walter Kohn, an Austrian Physicist

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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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Name: Walter Kohn

Nationality: Austrian

Date of Birth: Mar 9, 1923

Profession: Physicist

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