Olivier Kahn

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Olivier Kahn (born September 13, 1942 in Paris , † December 8, 1999 there ) was a French chemist .

Life

Olivier Kahn was trained as an engineer at the École nationale supérieure de chimie de Paris . He worked there in the field of organometallic chemistry and completed his doctoral thesis there. After two postdoc activities, he became an expert in the field of spectroscopy of transition metals at the University of Paris-Süd in Orsay . He became a co-founder of the "Molecular Magnetism" department.

He has been awarded honorary doctorates by several universities . An edition of the Inorganica Chimica Acta was dedicated to him and the Olivier Kahn International Award was named after him. In 1993 he and Philipp Gütlich ( University of Mainz ) received the Max Planck Research Award . In 1987 he became a corresponding member of the Académie des Sciences .

Kahn was the brother of the journalist Jean-François Kahn and the geneticist Axel Kahn .

Fonts (selection)

  • Molecular Magnetism , 1993.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ In memoriam ( Memento of September 2, 2003 in the Internet Archive ), website of the Académie des sciences .