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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1998

"for his development of the density-functional theory"
"for his development of computational methods in quantum chemistry"
Walter Kohn John A. Pople
Walter Kohn John A. Pople
half 1/2 of the prize half 1/2 of the prize
USA United Kingdom
University of California
Santa Barbara, CA, USA		 Northwestern University
Evanston, IL, USA
b. 1923
(in Vienna, Austria)		 b. 1925
d. 2004
 

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