Background
KOHN, Walter was born on March 9, 1923 in Vienna, Austria. Son of Solomon Kohn and Gusti Rappaport.
KOHN, Walter was born on March 9, 1923 in Vienna, Austria. Son of Solomon Kohn and Gusti Rappaport.
Bachelor, U. Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 1945; Master of Arts, U. Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 1946; Doctor of Laws (honorary), University Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 1967; Doctor of Philosophy in Physics, Harvard University, 1948; Doctor of Science (honorary), University Paris, 1980; Doctor of Philosophy (honorary), Brandeis U., 1981; Doctor of Philosophy (honorary), Hebrew U. Jerusalem, 1981; Doctor of Science (honorary), Queens U., Kingston, Canada, 1986; Doctor of Science (honorary), Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, 1994; Doctor of Science (honorary), University Wuerzburg, 1995; Doctor of Science (honorary), Technology U. Vienna, 1996; Doctor of Philosophy (honorary), Weizmann Institute, Israel, 1997.
Industrial physicist, Sutton Horsley Company, Canada, 1941-1943;
geophysicist, Koulomzine, Quebec, Canada, 1944-1946;
instructor physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1948-1950;
assistant professor physics, Carnegie Mellon U., Pittsburgh, 1950-1960;
associate professor physics, Carnegie Mellon U., Pittsburgh, 1953-1957;
professor physics, University of California, San Diego, 1960-1979;
department chairman physics, University of California, San Diego, 1961-1963;
director, Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1979-1984;
professor department physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1984-1991;
professor of physics emeritus, research professor of physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, since 1991;
research physicist, Center for Quantized Electronic Structures, University of California, Santa Barbara, since 1991. Visiting scholar University of Pennsylvania, University of Michigan, U. Washington, U. Paris, U. Copenhagen, U. Jerusalem, Imperial College, London, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule, Zurich, Switzerland. Consultant General Atomic, 1960-1972, Westinghouse Research Laboratory, 1953-1957, Bell Telephone laboratories, 1953-1966, International Business Machines Corporation, 1978.
Member or chairman review committees Brookhaven National laboratories, Argonne National laboratories, Oak Ridge National laboratories, Ames Laboratory, Tel Aviv U. (physics department), Brown U., Harvard University, University of Michigan, Simon Frazer U., Tulane University, Reactor Division The National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland. Chairman South Dakot division Academy Senate, 1968-1969. Director National Science Foundation Institute Theoretical Physics, University of California Santa Barbara, 1979-1984.
Member senate review committee University of California Management National laboratories, 1986-1989. Advisory board Statewide Institute Global Conflict and Cooperation, 1982-1992. Member of the Board of Governors Weizmann Institute of Science, since 1997.
With infantry, Canada Army, 1944-1945. Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Physical Society (counselor-at-large 1968-1972), American Academy Arts and Sciences. Member NAS, International Academy Quantum Molecular Sciences, Am.Philos.
M. Mara Schiff; children: J. Marilyn, Ingrid E. Kohn Katz, E. Rosalind.