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Steven Kahn

Steven Kahn

American physicist

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Steven Michael Kahn (born 1954)[1] is an American physicist currently the Cassius Lamb Kirk Professor at Stanford University and formerly the I. I. Rabi Professor of Physics at Columbia University and is an Elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and American Physical Society.[2][3]

Quick Facts Born, Nationality ...

Kahn graduated summa cum laude from Columbia College in 1975, and received a PhD in physics from University of California, Berkeley in 1980. He was a post-doctoral fellow at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian from 1980 to 1982.[4]

Honors

Asteroid 179413 Stevekahn, discovered by astronomers with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey in 2001, was named in his honor.[1] The official naming citation was published by IAU's WGSBN on 7 February 2022.[5]

References

  1. [1]
    "179413 Stevekahn". Minor Planet Center. Retrieved 9 February 2022.
  2. [2]
    "Steven Kahn". stanford.edu. Retrieved May 12, 2017.
  3. [3]
    "Steven Kahn". stanford.edu. Retrieved May 12, 2017.
  4. [4]
    "Sciences Names Scholars to 14 Tenured Faculty Positions". www.columbia.edu. Retrieved 2020-08-14.
  5. [5]
    "WGSBN Bulletin Archive". Working Group Small Body Nomenclature. 7 February 2022. Retrieved 8 February 2022. (Bulletin #15)


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