September 15, 2019
      
                  
        
  Author(s)
  William J. Boettinger,   C A. Handwerker,   Frank W. Gayle
 
       
            
    
    
        John Werner Cahn, retired Senior Fellow of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), died in Seattle, WA on March 14, 2016 at age 88. After distinguished careers at General Electric in Schenectady, N.Y. (1954-1964) and at MIT (1964-1978)