Updated at December 15, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Walter Kohn |
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Birthdate | March 09, 1923 |
Birth Place | Austria |
Age (in 2024) | 101 Years Old |
Zodiac | Pisces |
Occupation | Physicist |
Walter Kohn is best known as Physicist who has born on March 09, 1923 in Austria. Currently, Walter Kohn is 101 years, 9 months and 6 days old. Walter Kohn will celebrate 102nd birthday on Sunday, 9th of March 2025. Below the countdown to Walter Kohn upcoming birthday.
A theoretical physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1998 for his research in understanding electronic properties of materials. He also played an integral role in the development of density functional theory.
He arrived in England in 1938 as part of the famous Kindertransport rescue operation, where the UK took in nearly 10,000 Jewish children from Nazi territories.
He became a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and in 1969.
Both of his parents were killed in the Holocaust.
He won the Nobel Prize the year before Ahmed Zewail did.
Walter Kohn is 101 years old today.
Walter Kohn was born on March 09, 1923 in Austria.
Walter Kohn zodiac sign is Pisces.
Walter Kohn was best known as Physicist.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Walter Kohn's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1954 | McCarthyism: CBS television broadcasts the See It Now episode, "A Report on Senator Joseph McCarthy", produced by Fred Friendly. |
1956 | Soviet forces suppress mass demonstrations in the Georgian SSR, reacting to Nikita Khrushchev's de-Stalinization policy. |
1957 | The 8.6 Mw Andreanof Islands earthquake shakes the Aleutian Islands, causing over $5 million in damage from ground movement and a destructive tsunami. |
1959 | The Barbie doll makes its debut at the American International Toy Fair in New York. |
1960 | Dr. Belding Hibbard Scribner implants for the first time a shunt he invented into a patient, which allows the patient to receive hemodialysis on a regular basis. |
1961 | Sputnik 9 successfully launches, carrying a dog and a human dummy, and demonstrating that the Soviet Union was ready to begin human spaceflight. |
1967 | Trans World Airlines Flight 553 crashes in a field in Concord Township, Ohio following a mid-air collision with a Beechcraft Baron, killing 26 people. |
1974 | The Mars 7 Flyby bus releases the descent module too early, missing Mars. |
1976 | Forty-two people die in the Cavalese cable car disaster, the worst cable-car accident to date. |
1977 | The Hanafi Siege: In a 39-hour standoff, armed Hanafi Muslims seize three Washington, D.C., buildings. |
1978 | President Soeharto inaugurated Jagorawi Toll Road, the first toll highway in Indonesia, connecting Jakarta, Bogor and Ciawi, West Java. |
1987 | Chrysler announces its acquisition of American Motors Corporation |
1997 | Comet Hale-Bopp: Observers in China, Mongolia and eastern Siberia are treated to a rare double feature as an eclipse permits Hale-Bopp to be seen during the day. As the comet made its closest approach to Earth on March 26, all 39 active members of the Heaven's Gate cult committed ritual mass suicide over a period of three days, in the belief that their spirits would be teleported into an alien spacecraft flying inside the comet's tail. |
1997 | The Notorious B.I.G. is murdered in Los Angeles after attending the Soul Train Music Awards. He is gunned down leaving an after party at the Petersen Automotive Museum. His murder remains unsolved. |
2011 | Space Shuttle Discovery makes its final landing after 39 flights. |
1985 | The birth of Parthiv Patel, Indian cricketer |
1986 | The birth of Colin Greening, Canadian ice hockey player |
1986 | The birth of Brittany Snow, American actress and producer |
1987 | The birth of Shad Moss (Bow Wow), American rapper and actor |
1989 | The birth of Kim Tae-yeon (Taeyeon), South Korean singer |
1990 | The birth of Daley Blind, Dutch footballer |
1990 | The birth of Matt Robinson, New Zealand rugby league player |
1990 | The birth of Keenon Dequan Ray Jackson (YG), American rapper |
1991 | The birth of Kim Joo-young (Jooyoung), South Korean singer-songwriter |
1993 | The birth of Min Yoon-gi (Suga), South Korean rapper, songwriter, record producer |
1994 | The birth of Morgan Rielly, Canadian ice hockey player |
1995 | The birth of Cierra Ramirez, American actress and singer |
1997 | The birth of Jane Chika Oranika (Chika), American rapper |
1998 | The birth of Najee Harris, American football running back |
2000 | The birth of Khabane Lame (Khaby Lame), Senegalese-Italian social media personality |
2007 | The death of Glen Harmon, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1921) |
2010 | The death of Willie Davis, American baseball player and manager (b. 1940) |
2010 | The death of Doris Haddock, American activist and politician (b. 1910) |
2010 | The death of Wilfy Rebimbus, Indian singer (b. 1942) |
2011 | The death of David S. Broder, American journalist and academic (b. 1929) |
2013 | The death of Max Jakobson, Finnish journalist and diplomat |
2013 | The death of Merton Simpson, American painter and art collector (b. 1928) |
2015 | The death of James Molyneaux, Baron Molyneaux of Killead, Northern Irish soldier and politician (b. 1920) |
2016 | The death of Robert Horton, American actor (b. 1924) |
2016 | The death of Clyde Lovellette, American basketball player and coach (b. 1929) |
2017 | The death of Howard Hodgkin, British painter (b. 1932) |
2018 | The death of Jo Min-ki, Korean actor (b. 1965) |
2020 | The death of John Bathersby, Australian Catholic bishop (b. 1936) |
2021 | The death of James Levine, American conductor and pianist (b. 1943) |
2021 | The death of Roger Mudd, American journalist (b. 1928) |
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