Based on the many tributes of his colleagues and shared by CWRU Distinguished University Professor and Institute Professor Robert Brown 

Arnold Dahm was a physics professor and colleague in the physics department from 1968 to 2003. He produced 100 publications, was named an Institute Professor and won two Fulbright Fellowships. 

Arnie’s passing in October of last year at the age of 92 was followed by an outpouring of warm sentiments by the physics faculty, staff and friends. Their tributes tell of a “great physicist with a great intuition and great sense of humor,” of a “hero who made the course [designed the senior lab] what it is today,” of a “great model for students,” and of respecting him as a great athlete “just like everyone in the department respected his research and his teaching.” 

Just as importantly, colleagues spoke about his research discoveries, including that, “in 2003, he showed the feasibility of a previously proposed quantum computer based on electrons supported by a helium film and held in place by small electrodes. Work on this idea continues to this day. He will be sorely missed, for he was a man of integrity, collegiality, originality and perseverance.”  

It is fitting to end with a quote by a young collaborator who told of Arnie’s frustrations with experiments at times, saying “God doesn’t want me to know his secrets!” but then heading right back to the lab to try again. “I like to think he knows God’s secrets now,” the collaborator said.