Franz Daniel Kahn
Franz Daniel Kahn was a mathematician and astrophysicist at the University of Manchester. He was Professor of Astronomy from 1966 to 1993, then :wikt:Emeritus|Emeritus thereafter in the School of Physics and Astronomy.Education
Kahn was educated at St Paul's School, London from 1940 to 1944, after which he secured an open scholarship to The Queen's College, Oxford. After graduating with first-class honours in mathematics in 1947 he moved to Balliol College, Oxford in 1948 as a Skynner senior student. He was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1950 for research supervised by Sydney Chapman on the luminosity of the upper atmosphere.Research and career
According to his certificate of election as a Fellow of the Royal Society:Kahn was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1993. He was also a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society.Personal life
Kahn married Carla Copeland in 1950 and had four children. Kahn died of a heart attack in Bourne End, Buckinghamshire, on 8 February 1998 and was buried in the Jewish cemetery in south Manchester. He was survived by his four children.
