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Prof. Kahn received his undergraduate degree in Physics from Columbia University in 1975 and completed his PhD in Physics at UC Berkeley in 1980. He held a Center Postdoctoral Fellow position at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics from 1980 to 1982, and served as Assistant Professor of Physics at Columbia from 1982 to 1984. He progressed through the academic ranks at Berkeley, becoming an Assistant, Associate, and Full Professor of Physics and Astronomy from 1984 to 1995. Kahn then became the I.I. Rabi Professor of Physics at Columbia from 1995 to 2003 and served as the Cassius Lamb Kirk Professor of Natural Sciences at Stanford SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory from 2003 until 2022. He returned to Berkeley in 2022, where he currently holds the position of Dean of Mathematical and Physical Sciences and Professor of Physics and Astronomy. Kahn is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
University of California, Berkeley • Berkeley, CA
Currently serving as Dean and Professor of Physics and Astronomy.
Stanford SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory • Stanford, CA
Held professorship focused on natural sciences.
Columbia University • New York, NY
Served as a full professor in the physics department.
University of California, Berkeley • Berkeley, CA
Held multiple positions in the physics and astronomy departments.
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