Steven Kahn


Steven Michael Kahn is an American physicist is a professor of Physics and Astronomy at University of California, Berkeley 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.
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.

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

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Category:Fellows of the American Physical Society
Category:Stanford University faculty
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Category:21st-century American physicists
Category:University of California, Berkeley alumni
Category:1954 births
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