Awards & Winners

Erwin Hahn

Date of Birth 09-June-1921
Place of Birth Sharon
(Mercer County, Pennsylvania)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as Erwin L. Hahn
Profession Physicist, Scientist
Erwin L. Hahn is a U.S. physicist, best known for his work on nuclear magnetic resonance. In 1950 he discovered the spin echo. He received his B.S. in Physics from Juniata College and his M.S. and Ph.D. from The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has been Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley since 1991 and was professor of physics, 1955-91. In 1999 Hahn was awarded the Comstock Prize in Physics from the National Academy of Sciences.

Awards by Erwin Hahn

Check all the awards nominated and won by Erwin Hahn.

1993


Comstock Prize in Physics
(For his revolutionary discoveries in magnetic resonance and coherent optics, in particular for the Hahn Spin Echo, the Hartman-Hahn Cross-polarization, and self-induced transparency.)

1983


Wolf Prize in Physics
(for his discovery of nuclear spin echoes and for the phenomenon of self-induced transparency.)