Gahn

The following people have the family name Gahn :

• Carl Pontus Gahn (1759-1825), Swedish military
• Johan Gottlieb Gahn (1745–1818), Swedish chemist and mineralogist who discovered manganese in 1774 and after whom the mineral gahnite is named.
• Henrik Gahn (1747-1816), physicist and student of Linnés , who in 1803 was the first to use Vaczin against the plague in Sweden .
• Henrik Gahn (1820–1874), chemist and industrialist who invented the first antiseptic used in Sweden.
• Harry C. Gahn (1880–1962), American politician
• Peter Gahn (* 1970), German composer
• Wolter Gahn (1890–1985), architect, visionary and co-author of the Swedish manifesto acceptera (“accept!”, 1931).

See also:

• Gan
• Gann

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