| LC control no. | no2016031271 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Cahn, John W. (John Werner), 1928-2016 |
| Variant(s) | Cahn, John W. (John Werner), 1928- Cahn, Hans Werner, 1928-2016 |
| Associated country | Germany United States |
| Located | Netherlands New York (N.Y.) Cambridge (Mass.) Seattle (Wash.) |
| Birth date | 1928-01-09 |
| Death date | 2016-03-14 |
| Place of birth | Cologne (Germany) |
| Field of activity | Materials science Education, Higher |
| Affiliation | Massachusetts Institute of Technology National Institute of Standards and Technology (U.S.) |
| Profession or occupation | Materials scientists College teachers |
| Found in | The oxidation of isotopically labelled hydrazine, 1953: title page (John W. Cahn) Wikipedia, Mar. 07, 2016 (John Werner Cahn, b. Jan. 9, 1928, in Cologne, Germany; American scientist and recipient of the 1998 National Medal of Science; professor in the dept. of materials science at MIT from 1964 to 1978; since 1977, he has held a position at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (formerly the National Bureau of Standards, NBS); bachelor's degree in chemistry 1949, Univ. of Mich.; Ph.D in physical chemistry in 1953 from the UC Berkeley; one of foremost authorities on thermodynamics) SIAM, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics WWW site, March 19, 2020: SIAM News; Archives (in issue for October, 2016, Obituaries: John W. Cahn; born Hans Werner Cahn in Germany in 1928; died March 14, 2016; family moved to the Netherlands and then to the United States; grew up in New York City; moved to Seattle after retirement) <https://sinews.siam.org/About-the-Author/obituaries-john-w-cahn> |
| Associated language | eng |
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