Hermann Arthur Jahn

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name = Hermann Arthur Jahn


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birth_date = birth date|1907|5|31
birth_place = Colchester, England
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nationality = English
death_date = death date and age|1979|10|24|1907|5|31
death_place = Southampton, England
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work_institution = Aachen University of Technology
alma_mater = University College, London B.Sc 1928
University of Leipzig Ph.D
doctoral_advisor = Werner Heisenberg
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known_for = Jahn-Teller effect
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Hermann Arthur Jahn (b. 31 May 1907, Colchester, England; d. 24 October 1979 Southampton) was an English scientist of German extraction.cite journal | author = P. T. Landsberg | title = Hermann Arthur Jahn | year = 1980 | journal = Bull. London Math. Soc. | volume = 12 | issue = 5 | pages = 383–386 | url = http://blms.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/12/5/383 | doi = 10.1112/blms/12.5.383] With Edward Teller, he was responsible for identifying the Jahn-Teller effect. [cite journal | author = H. Jahn and E. Teller | title = Stability of Polyatomic Molecules in Degenerate Electronic States. I. Orbital Degeneracy | year = 1937 | journal = Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Mathematical and Physical Sciences (1934-1990) | volume = 161 | issue = 905 | pages = 220–235 | doi = 10.1098/rspa.1937.0142]

Jahn received a B.Sc. in Chemistry at University College, London in 1928. He received his Ph.D. on 14 February 1935 under the supervision of Werner Heisenberg at the University of Leipzig. The title of his dissertation was "The rotation and oscillation of the methane molecule". [cite journal | journal = Annalen der Physik | volume = 415 | issue = 6 | pages = 529–556 | author = H. A. Jahn | title = Rotation und Schwingung des Methanmoleküls (The rotation and oscillation of the methane molecule)|doi =10.1002/andp.19354150604 | year = 1935]

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