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Jeff Dahn (born in 1957 in America and emigrated to Nova Scotia, Canada in 1970) is a Professor at Department of Physics & Atmospheric Science and Department of Chemistry in Dalhousie University. He was involved in the development of the lithium-ion battery.

Career
Jeff Dahn obtained his Ph.D. from the University of British Columbia in 1982. He then worked at the National Research Council of Canada (1982-1985) and at Moli Energy Limited (1985-1990) before taking up a faculty position in the Physics Department at Simon Fraser University in 1990. He returned to Dalhousie University as a professor at Department of Physics & Atmospheric Science in 1996.

=Contributions= In 2001 Jeff and his PdD student Zhonghua Lu patented and published a new class of positive electrode materials: Lithium Nickle Manganese Cobalt (NMC). These materials batter satftey and better energy density ocompared to the standard positive electrode material at the time: Lithium Cobalt Oxide

Awards and honors
Jeff has received numerous awards including: International Battery Materials Association (IBA) Research Award (1995); Herzberg Medal, Canadian Association of Physicists (1996); ECS Battery Division Research Award (1996); Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (2001); Medal for Excellence in Teaching (2009) from the Canadian Assoc. of Physicists, The Rio-Tinto Alcan Award from the Canadian Institute of Chemistry (2010), the ECS Battery Division Technology Award (2011), the Yeager award from the International Battery Materials Association (2016) and the Inaugural Govenor General's Innovation Award (2016)