Robert Sidney Cahn

Robert Sidney Cahn (June 9 1899 - June 15 1981) was a British chemist, best known for his contributions to chemical nomenclature and stereochemistry, particularly by the Cahn–Ingold–Prelog priority rules, which he proposed in 1956 with Christopher Kelk Ingold and Vladimir Prelog. [cite journal |title=In Memoriam Vladimir Prelog (1906–1998): Some Personal Reminiscences |journal=The Chemical Educator |issn=1430-4171 |volume=3 |issue=2 |year=1998 |doi=10.1007/s00897980200a |pages=1-9 |author=George B. Kauffman]

Cahn was born in Hampstead, London. He became a fellow of the Royal Institute of Chemistry [cite journal |journal=Journal of the American Chemical Society |volume=82 |pages=5960 |author=Leonard T. Capell |title=An Introduction to Chemical Nomenclature |year=1960] and was editor of the Journal of the Chemical Society from 1949 until 1963, and he remained with the Society as Director of Publications Research until his retirement in 1965. [cite book |title=The Royal Society of Chemistry: The First 150 Years |author=David Hardy Whiffen, Donald Holroyde Hey |publisher=Royal Society of Chemistry |isbn=0851862942]

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* and subsequent editions published in 1964, 1968, and 1974.