What is John W. Cahn?
[[File:John W. Cahn.jpg|thumb|240px|John W. Cahn]] '''John Werner Cahn''' (January 9, 1928<ref>[http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:V7v829VroP8J:http://www.tms.org/pubs/Books/PDFs/01-416X/01-416X-0.pdf+%22John+Werner+Cahn%22+1928&hl=en&ct=clnk ''The Selected Works of John W. Cahn'' (Page 13)]</ref> &ndash; March 14, 2016) was an [[Americans|American]] scientist and recipient of the 1998 [[National Medal of Science]]. He was a professor in the department of Materials Science at MIT from 1964 to 1978. Since 1977, he has held a position at the [[National Institute of Standards and Technology]] (formerly the National Bureau of Standards, NBS).Cahn has applied the basic laws of [[thermodynamics]] to describe and predict a wide range of physical phenomena.<ref>[http://www.ctcms.nist.gov/~cahn John W. Cahn]</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Cahn, John W.}} [[Category:1928 births]] [[Category:2016 deaths]] [[Category:Writers from Michigan]] [[Category:Scientists from Michigan]] {{US-bio-stub}}