Dr. Kuhn
First appears in Book 2: The Dark Forest, chapter 7 (Year 205, Crisis Era)
Appearances
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What you know
Book 2: The Dark Forest
- Ch 7He is Earth's lead scientist for the Ringier-Fitzroy Telescope, favors fast station rotation for Earth gravity and admires Earth's superpowers over fleet bureaucracy.
- Ch 7He proposes using a stellar bomb near Neptune to deal with the lost probe, and Robinson agrees to try it.
- Ch 7Dr. Kuhn and General Robinson had a man-made dust cloud made to reveal the probe's path by its wake.
Connections
- ally ofGeneral Robinson
Key moments
- Book 2 · Ch 7The probe goes dark
The Trisolaran probe's engines go out, making it untraceable; Kuhn and Robinson, hampered by fleet disputes, decide to try a stellar bomb near Neptune to create a dust cloud to detect it.