Committee of Concerned Scientists

An international non-profit organization of scientists, physicians, engineers and scholars dedicated to protecting the human rights and scientific freedom of our colleagues around the world.

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Walter Kohn, Nobel Prize Winner and National Sponsor of the Committee of Concerned Scientists Passes at 93

Walter Kohn, Nobel Prize winner and CCS National Sponsor

Walter Kohn. Photo: Markus Pössel via Wikimedia Commons

The Committee of Concerned Scientists sadly announces the passing of one of our National Sponsors and a Nobel Prize Laureate, Dr. Walter Kohn. Walter Kohn was not only a leading scientist, but also an advocate for the rights of scientists and the co-author of a documentary film on solar energy, The Power of the Sun.

Dr. Pierre Hohenberg, a current National Sponsor of CCS and a colleague of Dr. Kohn, noted that apart from the good fortune of collaborating with Walter on the origins of Density Functional Theory – the work that led to Walter’s Nobel prize – he personally benefited from Walter’s career advice, as well as his leadership as the founding director of the Institute for Theoretical Physics in Santa Barbara. In addition to his seminal contributions to physics, Walter was a shining example of humanity to several generations of students and scientific colleagues. We are very lucky to have had Dr. Kohn as an integral part of our organization and we will miss him.

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Who We Are

Co-chairs

Joel L. Lebowitz, Rutgers University

Walter Reich, George Washington University

Eugene Chudnovsky, Lehman College

Alexander Greer, Brooklyn College

Vice-chairs

Biology – Max E. Gottesman, Columbia University

Chemistry – Zafra Lerman, MIMSAD Inc.

Computer Science – Rachelle Heller, The George Washington University

Engineering – Philip Sarachik, NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering

Computer Science – Jack Minker, University of Maryland, College Park

Mathematics – Simon Levin, Princeton University

Honorary Board Members

Nancy Andrews, Duke University

Myles Axton, Chief Editor, Genetics and Genomics Next

David Baltimore, California Institute of Technology*

Alan J. Bard, University of Texas

David Gross, University of California, Santa Barbara*

James Langer, University of California, Santa Barbara

Peter Lax, New York University

Giorgio Parisi, Roma I University La Sapienza

John C. Polanyi, University of Toronto*

Stuart Rice, University of Chicago

Sir Richard J. Roberts, New England Biolabs*

Maxine Singer, Carnegie Institution of Washington

Alfred I. Tauber, Boston University

Myrna Weissman, Columbia University

Former Honorary Board Members

Jacob Bigeleisen (deceased), SUNY, Stony Brook

Raoul Bott (deseased) Harvard University

Owen Chamberlain (deceased), University of California, Berkeley

Stanley Deser (deceased), Brandeis University

Edward Gerjuoy (deceased), University of Pittsburgh

Pierre Hohenberg (deceased), New York University

Walter Kohn (deceased), University of California, Santa Barbara*

Louis Nirenberg (deceased), New York University

Marshall Nirenberg (deceased), National Institutes of Health*

Myriam Sarachick (deceased), City College of New York

Harold Scheraga (deceased), Cornell University

Sylvan Schweber (deceased), Brandeis University

Steven Weinberg (deceased), University of Texas, Austin*

Rosalyn S. Yalow (deceased), Mount Sinai School of Medicine*

* Nobel laureate

CONTACT

Edyta Greer
Executive Director
P.O. Box 112
New York, NY 10159
emgreer@concernedscientists.org