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During one or two summers, as well as part-time during the school year, I worked for a small Canadian company which developed electrical instruments for military planes.
Walter Kohn
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Walter Kohn
Age: 93 †
Born: 1923
Born: March 9
Died: 2016
Died: April 19
Chemist
Physicist
University Teacher
Vienna
Austria
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Electrical
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Canadian
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Two
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