Dr Lu Sham, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Physics at the University of California, San Diego, talks with Nature Computational Science about his current research, the density functional theory (DFT) work that was recognized by the 1998 Nobel Prize in Chemistry — awarded to his co-author Dr Walter Kohn — and where he thinks the field is heading.
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McCardle, K. A collective effort for building DFT. Nat Comput Sci 2, 539–541 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s43588-022-00294-1
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