Documenting the Working Life of a Physicist: Nobel Laureate Walter Kohn Gives Papers to UC Santa Barbara.

Byline: University of California, Santa Barbara

SANTA BARBARA, Calif., March 26 (AScribe Newswire) -- The papers of Walter Kohn, winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, will be preserved at the University of California, Santa Barbara for use by students and scholars nationwide.

Kohn, a condensed matter theorist, donated his extensive collection of notes, articles, manuscripts, research documents, and correspondence to Special Collections in Davidson Library. Biographers and historians of science will be drawn to the collection, which documents the working life of a physicist and includes materials related to Kohn's opposition to UC's peacetime nuclear …