Obituary: Dr. Hans Heinrich Kuhn

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Obituary, Dr. Kuhn

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Dr. Hans Heinrich Kuhn, 97, died on May 11th, 2021, at his home in Summit Hills Spartanburg. Born in 1924 in Niederuzwil, Switzerland, he was the son of the late Werner and Gretel Kuhn and husband of Edith Kuhn Peyer from Zurich, Switzerland. Dr. Kuhn was educated in Switzerland and received his master’s degree in Chemical Engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich, Switzerland. He received his PhD degree in organic chemistry from the ETH in 1953. After four years of postdoctoral research, he immigrated to the United States in 1957 and was employed by W.R. Grace and Co. in Boston Mass.

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(2021) "Obituary: Dr. Hans Heinrich Kuhn," Swiss American Historical Society Review: Vol. 57: No. 3, Article 3.
Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/sahs_review/vol57/iss3/3