My project was radiation damage of Si and Ge by energetic electrons, critical for the use of the recently developed semiconductor devices for applications in outer space.
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However, while the Nazi barbarians and their collaborators threatened the entire world, I could not accept his philosophy and, after several earlier attempts, was finally accepted into the Canadian Infantry Corps during the last year of World War II.Walter Kohn
Originally I had planned to revert to nuclear physics there, in particular the structure of the deuteron.
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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.
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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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I was fortunate to find an extraordinary mathematics and applied mathematics program in Toronto.
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My father, who had lost a brother, fighting on the Austrian side in World War I, was a committed pacifist.
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