Franz Daniel Kahn
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Franz Kahn FRS FRAS |
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| Born | Franz Daniel Kahn May 13, 1926 Nuremberg, Germany |
| Died | February 8, 1998 (aged 71) |
| Resting place | Manchester |
| Fields | Astrophysics |
| Institutions | University of Manchester |
| Education | St Paul's School, London |
| Alma mater | University of Oxford (BA, DPhil) |
| Thesis | Some problems concerning the luminosity and other properties of the upper atmosphere |
| Doctoral advisor | Sydney Chapman |
| Doctoral students | |
| Spouse | Carla Copeland (m. 1950–81) |
Franz Daniel Kahn FRS FRAS (1926–1998) was a mathematician and astrophysicist at the University of Manchester. He was Professor of Astronomy from 1966–93, then Emeritus thereafter in the School of Physics and Astronomy.
Kahn was educated at St Paul's School, London from 1940 to 1944, after which he secured an open scholarship to The Queen's College, Oxford. After graduating with first-class honours in mathematics in 1947 he moved to Balliol College, Oxford in 1948 as a Skynner senior student. He was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1950 for research supervised by Sydney Chapman on the luminosity of the upper atmosphere.
According to his certificate of election as a Fellow of the Royal Society:
Kahn was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1993. He was also a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society (FRAS).
Kahn married Carla Copeland (Carla Kahn) in 1950 and had four children. Kahn died of a heart attack in Bourne End, Buckinghamshire, on 8 February 1998 and was buried in the Jewish cemetery in south Manchester. He was survived by his four children.
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