{"312891":{"#nid":"312891","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Walter Kohn and the Creation of Density Functional Theory","body":[{"value":"\u003Ch6\u003ESchool of Physics Colloquium Series: Dr. Andrew Zangwill, Georgia Tech\u003C\/h6\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe theoretical physicist Walter Kohn was awarded one-half the 1998 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for his mid-1960\u0027s creation of an approach to the many-particle problem in quantum mechanics called density functional theory (DFT). DFT establishes that the ground state charge density provides a complete description of ALL the properties of any atom, molecule, or solid. This was a breakthrough (both conceptually and computationally) because it had been presumed previously that the vastly more complicated many-electron wave function was essential for this purpose. In this talk, I present a biographical sketch of Kohn\u0027s unusual educational experiences and the events in his professional career which led him to create DFT. A coda explains how the chemists came to award \u0022their\u0022 Nobel prize to a card-carrying physicist.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Walter Kohn and the Creation of Density Functional Theory"}],"uid":"27664","created_gmt":"2014-08-06 11:04:19","changed_gmt":"2017-04-13 21:22:12","author":"Alison Morain","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2014-09-22T16:00:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2014-09-22T17:00:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2014-09-22T17:00:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2014-09-22 20:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2014-09-22 21:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2014-09-22 21:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"126011","name":"School of Physics"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"99101","name":"Creation of Density Functional Theory"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:alison.morain@physics.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ealison.morain@physics.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}