T. Marshall Hahn

Career Hahn was a research assistant at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, beginning in 1947. In 1949, he returned to the University of Kentucky as associate professor and then professor of physics.

Hahn returned to Virginia Tech as President on July 1, 1962, where he remained until 1975.

During this period, Blacksburg was affected by the student anti-war protests with Hahn targeted as a symbol of the bureaucracy in 1970 when considerable disturbance erupted on campus after a group of students and two faculty members protesting U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War interrupted a Corps of Cadets drill, forcing the university to seek an injunction against further disruptive activities by the individuals involved. Several weeks later after the Kent State shootings a group of students and non-student anti-war protesters seized Williams Hall. He served until December 31, 1974, and was succeeded as President of Virginia Tech by William Edward Lavery in 1975.

After leaving Virginia Tech, Hahn became an executive with the Georgia-Pacific Corporation. Hahn's tenure as CEO of Georgia Pacific from 1983 to 1993 included the boom years for the paper industry and the hostile takeover of Great Northern Nekoosa by Georgia-Pacific. The latter was one of Hahn's strategic decisions to build the paper side of Georgia Pacific's business. He died after a decade-long battle with Parkinson's disease on May 29, 2016. After her death, he married and later divorced Jean Russell Quible. He was recognized by eight different Greek honorary fraternities. In 1976, he received the MIT Corporate Leadership Award and an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Seton Hall University.

Hahn received an honorary doctorate of science from Virginia Tech in 1987. and the Peggy Lee Hahn Garden Pavilion and Horticulture Garden are named for his wife Peggy.