Steven Kahn

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Steven Michael Kahn (born 1954)^[1] 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.^[2][3][4]

Steven M. Kahn
Born	1954 (age 70–71)
Nationality	American
Alma mater	University of California, Berkeley
Scientific career
Fields	Physics
Institutions	Stanford University University of California, Berkeley, Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology
Thesis	Soft X-ray Spectral and Temporal Properties of Galactic Sources (1980)

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.^[5]

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 February 7, 2022.^[6]