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Robert Wolfgang Cahn FRS (9 September 1924 – 9 April 2007) was a British metallurgist whose contributions to physical metallurgy centred on the properties of dislocations. Cahn developed a successful model for the nucleation of recrystallisation, which underpinned research into industrial processes involving high-temperature deformation.
Robert Wolfgang Cahn, a distinguished and pioneering materials scientist, profes-sor, and science writer par excellence, died on April 9, 2007, in Cambridge, England, after a valiant fight against bone marrow anemia. He was eighty-two.
- V. S. Arunachalam
- 2007
Jun 24, 2007 · Doyen of materials science. In Robert Cahn, who died on 9 April 2007, materials science has lost one of its creators, a formidable contributor to its development, and its foremost...
- A. Lindsay Greer
- 2007
Nov 7, 2023 · In Grace in All Simplicity, particle physicists Robert Cahn and Chris Quigg offer a personal tour of humanity’s quest to understand nature and the laws of physics. It is scientific journey as...
Oct 25, 2023 · Robert Cahn, Berkeley Lab’s former Physics Division Director, and colleague Chris Quigg (Fermilab) have released a new book entitled Grace in All Simplicity: Beauty, Truth, and Wonders on the Path to the Higgs Boson and New Laws of Nature.
Apr 10, 2001 · Eighteen Arbitrary Parameters of the Standard Model in Your Everyday Life. I have written a semi-technical paper (appropriate for beginning graduate students in physics), which has been published in Reviews of Modern Physics, 68, 951 (1996).
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Robert Cahn was born in Seattle, WA in 1917 and graduated from the University of Washington. He began his journalism career by writing a sports column for the "Christian Science Monitor" from 1936-1941.
