Walter Kohn discusses his experience as a participant at a conference in Rome on the theme “Physics in the 21st Century,” the closing session of which was convened on the grounds of the Vatican under the aegis of Pope John Paul II. He has been a faculty member at Harvard, Carnegie Mellon University, and the University of California at San Diego and at Santa Barbara. He was the founding director of the Institute of Theoretical Physics of the National Science Foundation. He has received numerous awards including the Niels Bohr/Unesco Gold Medal, the National Medal of Science and the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

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