Hermann Arthur Jahn

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Hermann Arthur Jahn (born May 31, 1907 in Colchester , England , † October 24, 1979 in Southampton ) was an English physicist .

Hermann Arthur Jahn was the son of Friedrich Wilhelm Hermann Jahn and Marion May Curtiss. His father had come to England from Germany in 1890. Jahn received his school education in Lincoln and studied chemistry at University College in London from 1925 to 1928 , completing his studies with a Bachelor of Science (B. Sc.). He received his doctorate on February 14, 1935 under Werner Heisenberg at the University of Leipzig . The subject of the dissertation was the rotation and oscillation of the methane molecule .

Jahn is known through a work together with Edward Teller , published in 1937 (HA Jahn, E. Teller, Proc. Royal Soc. London 161 (1937) 220). The theorem described in this work is now known as the Jahn-Teller effect .

In 1943 he married Karoline Schuler in Hendon . The marriage resulted in a son (* 1944) and a daughter (* 1946).

James Philip Elliott is one of his PhD students .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ PT Landsberg: Hermann Arthur Jahn . In: Bull. London Math. Soc. . 12, No. 5, 1980, pp. 383-386. doi : 10.1112 / blms / 12.5.383 .
  2. ^ HA Jahn: Rotation and oscillation of the methane molecule . In: Annals of Physics . 415, No. 6, 1935, pp. 529-556. bibcode : 1935AnP ... 415..529J . doi : 10.1002 / andp.19354150604 .
  3. ^ H. Jahn and E. Teller : Stability of Polyatomic Molecules in Degenerate Electronic States. I. Orbital Degeneracy . In: Proceedings of the Royal Society of London . Series A, Mathematical and Physical Sciences (1934-1990) . 161, No. 905, 1937, pp. 220-235. bibcode : 1937RSPSA.161..220J . doi : 10.1098 / rspa.1937.0142 .
personal data
SURNAME Jahn, Hermann Arthur
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English physicist
DATE OF BIRTH May 31, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Colchester , England
DATE OF DEATH October 24, 1979
Place of death Southampton