Bor-ming Jahn

Bor-ming Jahn (; 24 August 1940 – 1 December 2016) was a Taiwanese-French geochemist.

Life and career Born in Miaoli, Taiwan, on 24 August 1940, Jahn graduated from Hsinchu Senior High School and attended National Taiwan University, where, in 1963, he earned a bachelor's degree in geology. He obtained a master's degree in geochemistry from Brown University in 1967, and completed a Ph.D. at the University of Minnesota in 1972.

After postdoctoral work and further research at NASA and the Lunar Science Institute, Jahn moved to France and joined the University of Rennes I faculty in 1976. Jahn acquired French nationality in May 1980. He left Academia Sinica to take an appointment at NTU, as distinguished chair professor of the department of geosciences. He died on 1 December 2016, at the Taipei Veterans General Hospital.