Walter Kohn has died.

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8. Thanks for your kind words, Alain...

It's very interesting about how your career intersected with that of Kohn.

I hope you are wrong about "not seeing their like again." The next generation faces awful hurdles we cannot imagine, but I hope against hope that good science will continue.

You may be interested, if you're not already familiar with it, in Emily Carter's work; she's been kicked upstairs and is now Dean of Engineering at Princeton, but she's been working on some very interesting work on high energy interactions of neutrons with matter, albeit in the chimeric quest for fusion:

Carter, Journal of Materials Research / Volume 25 / Issue 02 / 2010, pp 315-327

It's nice to know, as we think of the great work of Kohn, who might have easily been spit cruelly our of the world with no regard for who he became, that someone still thinks about me.

But I'm small potatoes.

Thanks again.