Hermann Arthur Jahn

Hermann Arthur Jahn ( born May 31, 1907 in Colchester, England; † October 24, 1979 in Southampton ) was an English physicist.

Hermann Arthur Jahn was the son of Friedrich Wilhelm Hermann Jahn and Marion May Curtiss. His father had come in 1890 from Germany to England. Jahn received his education in Lincoln and studied from 1925 to 1928 chemistry at University College in London and graduated with a degree in Bachelor of Science (B. Sc.). He earned his doctorate at February 14, 1935 with Werner Heisenberg at the University of Leipzig. Dissertation topic was " rotation and vibration of the methane molecule ".

Jahn is known by a work jointly with Edward Teller, published in 1937 (HA Jahn, E. Teller, Proc. Royal Soc. London 161 (1937 ) 220). The theorem described in this work is now called the Jahn -Teller effect.

His PhD is one of James Philip Elliott.