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Franz Daniel Kahn Шаблон:Post-nominals[1] (1926–1998) was a mathematician and astrophysicist at the University of Manchester.[2][3][4] He was Professor of Astronomy from 1966 to 1993, then Emeritus thereafter in the School of Physics and Astronomy.[5]

Education

Kahn was educated at St Paul's School, London from 1940 to 1944,[2] after which he secured an open scholarship to The Queen's College, Oxford.[5][2] After graduating with first-class honours in mathematics in 1947 he moved to Balliol College, Oxford in 1948 as a Skynner senior student.[2] He was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1950 for research supervised by Sydney Chapman on the luminosity of the upper atmosphere.[6][7]

Research and career

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Awards and honours

Kahn was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1993.[1] He was also a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society (FRAS).[8] In 1991 the International Astronomers Union named the asteroid Kahnia after him.[1]

Personal life

Kahn married Carla Copeland (Carla Kahn) in 1951[9] and had four children.[5] Kahn died of a heart attack in Bourne End, Buckinghamshire, on 8 February 1998 and was buried in the Jewish cemetery in south Manchester.[8] He was survived by his four children.[8][10]

References

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