Steven Michael Kahn (born 1954) is an American physicist is a professor of Physics and Astronomy at

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and formerly the I. I. Rabi Professor of Physics at

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and is an Elected Fellow of the

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and

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. Kahn graduated summa cum laude from Columbia College in 1975, and received a PhD in physics from

in 1980. He was a post-doctoral fellow at the Center for Astrophysics Harvard & Smithsonian from 1980 to 1982.

Honors

Asteroid 179413 Stevekahn, discovered by astronomers with the

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in 2001, was named in his honor. The official was published by IAU's WGSBN on February 7, 2022.

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