Robert George Arns (1933 – May 16, 2019) was an American experimental physicist working in nuclear and particle physics, and also an historian of physics, technology, and electrical history.

Arns was a professor and for eight years vice president of academic affairs (provost) at the University of Vermont. He was a principal in the management consulting firm Arns & Green, Inc. Arns was also an accomplished painter, specializing most recently in works inspired by images from the Hubble Space Telescope. He had a Ph.D. in nuclear and particle physics from the University of Michigan.^[1]

Arns died on May 16, 2019.^[2]

• R. G. Arns, "The other transistor: early history of the metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor," Engineering Science and Education Journal, 7, No. 5 (October, 1998): 233-240
• R. G. Arns, "The High-Vacuum X-ray Tube: Technological Change in Social Context," Technology and Culture, 38, No. 4 (October, 1997):852-90

• Robert Arns Awarded IEEE Prize 1998 IEEE Life Members' Prize in Electrical History

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