Olivier Kahn (13 September 1942 – 8 December 1999) was a French
chemist
A chemist (from Greek ''chēm(ía)'' alchemy; replacing ''chymist'' from Medieval Latin ''alchemist'') is a scientist trained in the study of chemistry. Chemists study the composition of matter and its properties. Chemists carefully describe th ...
. He was the brother of the geneticist
Axel Kahn and the journalist
Jean-François Kahn.
Kahn studied at
Chimie ParisTech in Paris and received his PhD for work on metal-organic compounds with
Michaël Bigorgne in 1969. After a postdoctoral position at the
University of East Anglia
The University of East Anglia (UEA) is a public research university in Norwich, England. Established in 1963 on a campus west of the city centre, the university has four faculties and 26 schools of study. The annual income of the institution f ...
with
Sydney Kettle he became professor at the
University of Paris-Sud in 1976. He stayed there until he changed position and became professor at the
University of Bordeaux in 1995. He held that position until his death in 1999.
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1942 births
1999 deaths
20th-century French chemists
French people of German-Jewish descent
Members of the French Academy of Sciences
Scientists from Paris
Chimie ParisTech alumni
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