JACOB L. HAIN, A&S 1923, a university trustee, was an investment banker who organized the Penn Square Mutual Fund located in Reading, Pennsylvania. The firm dealt primarily with investments in railroads, airlines, and nonferrous metals. In addition to endowing this professorship, Mr. Hain also made possible the acquisition of the Steinwald Alumni House, named in honor of his close friend Osmar Steinwald, A&S 1928, who was Hopkins’ first director of alumni relations.
Mr. Hain was a tireless promoter of Hopkins’ annual Roll Call (now called Annual Giving) from the early 1950s until his death in 1972. He twice served as chairman of the Roll Call and was also a great supporter of the Johns Hopkins Magazine, in which his long series of back-cover ads often included a memorable brain teaser.
“My father believed that supporting the dissemination of knowledge and information was a duty every man had to his family, to society, and to the future.”
–Andrew M. Hain
Held by Chia-Ling Chien
CHIA-LING CHIEN, the Jacob L. Hain Professor in Arts and Sciences, has been a faculty member in the Department of Physics and Astronomy since 1976. He has written more than 460 journal articles and holds several patents. He is one of the ISI’s 1120 most cited physicists with over 37,000 citations with an H-index of 96. He was the recipient of the 2004 David Adler Award of the American Physical Society, the inaugural recipient of AUMS (Asian Union of Magnetics Societies) Award in 2012, the 2015 winner of the International Union on Physics and Applied Physics (IUPAP) Magnetism Award and Néel Medal from the C9 Magnetism Commission, the highest award in magnetism, given every 3 years, and the IEEE Magnetics Society Achievement Award in 2020, the highest Award of the Society. He is also a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences (AAAS) and an Academician of Academia Sinica. Dr. Chien has been awarded honorary professorships at Nanjing, Lanzhou, and Fudan universities in China, and National Taiwan University in Taiwan.