Bor-ming Jahn (; 24 August 1940 – 1 December 2016) was a

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ese-French geochemist.

Life and career

Born in

Miaoli Miaoli City (Wade–Giles: ''Miao²-li⁴-shih⁴''; Hakka Chinese, Hakka Pha̍k-fa-sṳ, PFS: ''Mèu-li̍t-sṳ''; Hokkien Pe̍h-ōe-jī, POJ: ''Biâu-le̍k-chhī'' or ''Miâu-le̍k-chhī''; Japanese language, Japanese Byōritsushi) is a cou ...

, Taiwan, on 24 August 1940, Jahn graduated from Hsinchu Senior High School and attended

National Taiwan University National Taiwan University (NTU; zh, t=國立臺灣大學, poj=Kok-li̍p Tâi-oân Tāi-ha̍k, p=, s=) is a National university, national Public university, public research university in Taipei, Taiwan. Founded in 1928 during Taiwan under J ...

, where, in 1963, he earned a bachelor's degree in geology. He obtained a master's degree in geochemistry from

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in 1967, and completed a

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at the

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in 1972. After postdoctoral work and further research at

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and the Lunar Science Institute, Jahn moved to France and joined the University of Rennes I faculty in 1976. Jahn acquired French nationality in May 1980. In 2003, he returned to Taiwan, serving as distinguished research fellow affiliated with the Institute of Earth Sciences, Academia Sinica from August 2004 to 2010. He left Academia Sinica to take an appointment at NTU, as distinguished chair professor of the department of geosciences. Between 2006 and 2016, Jahn was chief editor of the ''

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''. Over the course of his career, Jahn was granted fellowship by the

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and

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in 2004, followed by the

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and

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in 2006. In 2012, Jahn was elected a member of Academia Sinica. The next year, the French government named Jahn a chevalier of the

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. In 2016, the Geological Society of America awarded Jahn honorary fellow status. He died on 1 December 2016, at the

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References

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