Research in Retirement
In his retirement, Cahn has accepted a position at the University of Washington as an Affiliate Professor in the departments of Materials Science and Engineering and Physics. In his office in the new Physics/Astronomy Tower, Dr. Cahn is working on a project that includes a glass that grows from a melt like a crystal – as if by a first-order transition.
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