Erwin Hahn

Short description: American physicist (192-2016)

Erwin Hahn

Born|

Erwin Louis Hahn

(1921-06-09)June 9, 1921

Sharon, Pennsylvania

Died| September 20, 2016(2016-09-20) (aged 95)

Berkeley, California

Alma mater| Juniata College
University of Illinois
Awards| Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize (1971)
Wolf Prize in Physics (1983/4)
Scientific career
Fields| Physics
Institutions| Stanford University
University of California

Erwin Louis Hahn (June 9, 1921 – September 20, 2016) was an American physicist, best known for his work on nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR).[1] In 1950 he discovered the spin echo.[2]

## Contents

* 1 Education
* 2 Career and research
* 3 See also
* 4 References
* 5 External links

## Education

He grew up in Sewickley, Pennsylvania. He received his B.S. in Physics from Juniata College and his M.S. and Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. He served as an enlisted sailor in the United States Navy and was an instructor on radar and sonar.[3]

## Career and research

He was professor of physics, from 1955 to 1991, and subsequently, Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. Hahn was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1971.[4] In 1993 he was awarded the Comstock Prize in Physics from the National Academy of Sciences.[5] In 2013, Sir Peter Mansfield said in his autobiography that Hahn was "the person who really missed out" the Nobel Prize for his contribution to the principles of spin echoes.[6] He also received the 2016 Gold Medal from the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM). The award, ISMRM's highest honor, was given to Hahn for his creation of pulsed magnetic resonance and processes of signal refocusing which are essential to modern day MRI.[7] He died at the age of 95 in 2016.[8]

## See also

* Pulsed magnetic resonance--NMR, ESR, and optics: a recognition of E.L. Hahn. Oxford University Press. 1992. ISBN 0-19-853962-2. https://archive.org/details/pulsedmagneticre0000unse.

## References

1. ↑ Filler, AG: The history, development, and impact of computed imaging in neurological diagnosis and neurosurgery: CT, MRI, DTI: Nature Precedings  doi:10.1038/npre.2009.3267.4.
2. ↑ Hahn, E.L. (1950). "Spin echoes". Physical Review 80 (4): 580–594. doi:10.1103/PhysRev.80.580. Bibcode: 1950PhRv...80..580H.
3. ↑ Pines, Alexander; Budker, Dmitry (2019-12-01). "Erwin Louis Hahn. 9 June 1921—20 September 2016". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 68: 219–230. doi:10.1098/rsbm.2019.0038.
4. ↑ "Book of Members, 1780–2010: Chapter H". American Academy of Arts and Sciences. http://www.amacad.org/publications/BookofMembers/ChapterH.pdf.
5. ↑ "Comstock Prize in Physics". National Academy of Sciences. http://www.nasonline.org/site/PageServer?pagename=AWARDS_comstock.
6. ↑ Peter Mansfield (2013). The long road to Stockholm. The story of MRI. An autobiography. p. 217. ISBN 978-0-19-966454-2.
7. ↑ "Erwin Hahn Receives Gold Medal Award". http://physics.berkeley.edu/news-events/news/20160630/erwin-hahn-receives-gold-medal-award.
8. ↑ "Remembering Erwin Hahn". http://physics.berkeley.edu/news-events/news/20160922/remembering-erwin-hahn.

## External links

* Oral History interview transcript with Erwin L. Hahn on 21 August 1986, American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library and Archives
* Alexander Pines and Dmitry Budker, "Erwin L. Hahn", Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences (2019)
* The Transformative Genius of Erwin Hahn - Interview published 8 May 2016, Magnetic Resonance in Medicine Highlights.
* Download the entire Highlights print supplement featuring this story at: http://www.ismrm.org/MRM/mrm_highlights_magazine.pdf

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Laureates of the Wolf Prize in Physics

1970s|

* Chien-Shiung Wu (1978)
* George Uhlenbeck / Giuseppe Occhialini (1979)

1980s|

* Michael Fisher / Leo Kadanoff / Kenneth G. Wilson (1980)
* Freeman Dyson / Gerardus 't Hooft / Victor Weisskopf (1981)
* Leon M. Lederman / Martin Lewis Perl (1982)
* Erwin Hahn / Peter Hirsch / Theodore Maiman (1983–84)
* Conyers Herring / Philippe Nozières (1984–85)
* Mitchell Feigenbaum / Albert J. Libchaber (1986)
* Herbert Friedman / Bruno Rossi / Riccardo Giacconi (1987)
* Roger Penrose / Stephen Hawking (1988)

1990s|

* Pierre-Gilles de Gennes / David J. Thouless (1990)
* Maurice Goldhaber / Valentine Telegdi (1991)
* Joseph H. Taylor Jr. (1992)
* Benoît Mandelbrot (1993)
* Vitaly Ginzburg / Yoichiro Nambu (1994–95)
* John Wheeler (1996–97)
* Yakir Aharonov / Michael Berry (1998)
* Dan Shechtman (1999)

2000s|

* Raymond Davis Jr. / Masatoshi Koshiba (2000)
* Bertrand Halperin / Anthony Leggett (2002–03)
* Robert Brout / François Englert / Peter Higgs (2004)
* Daniel Kleppner (2005)
* Albert Fert / Peter Grünberg (2006–07)

2010s|

* John F. Clauser / Alain Aspect / Anton Zeilinger (2010)
* Maximilian Haider / Harald Rose / Knut Urban (2011)
* Jacob Bekenstein (2012)
* Peter Zoller / Juan Ignacio Cirac (2013)
* James D. Bjorken / Robert P. Kirshner (2015)
* Yoseph Imry (2016)
* Michel Mayor / Didier Queloz (2017)
* Charles H. Bennett / Gilles Brassard (2018)

2020s|

* Rafi Bistritzer / Pablo Jarillo-Herrero / Allan H. MacDonald (2020)

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