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I was born in 1923 into a middle class Jewish family in Vienna, a few years after the end of World War I, which was disastrous from the Austrian point of view.

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Walter Kohn
Age: 93 †
Born: 1923
Born: March 9
Died: 2016
Died: April 19
Chemist
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University Teacher
Vienna
Austria
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