Manne Siegbahn
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AKA Karl Manne Georg Siegbahn

Born: 3-Dec-1886

Birthplace: Örebro, Sweden

Died: 26-Sep-1978

Location of death: Stockholm, Sweden

Cause of death: unspecified

Gender: Male

Race or Ethnicity: White

Sexual orientation: Straight

Occupation: Physicist

Nationality: Sweden

Executive summary: X-Ray spectroscopy

Military service: Corps of Engineers, 1908-09

Swedish physicist Manne Siegbahn discovered a new group of wavelengths, the 'M' series of x-rays, in 1916. He also developed new apparatus and techniques to determine the wavelengths of x-rays, and improved the accuracy of Bragg's equation for x-ray diffraction. In 1924 he won the Nobel Prize for Physics, and in 1925 he showed that x-rays are refracted as they pass through prisms. His son, Kai M. Siegbahn, was also a Nobel laureate.

Father: Nils Reinhold Georg Siegbahn (railway stationmaster, b. 1855)

Mother: Emma Sofia Mathilda Zetterberg (b. 1854, m. 1884)

Wife: Karin Högbom (m. 1914, two sons)

Son: Bo Lennart Georg Siegbahn (diplomat, b. 25-Feb-1915, d. 7-Jan-2008)

Son: Kai M. Siegbahn (physicist and Nobel laureate, b. 20-Apr-1918, d. 20-Jul-2007)

High School: Högre Allmänna Realläroverker, Stockholm, Sweden (1906)

University: BS, University of Lund (1908)

University: PhD Physics, University of Lund (1911)

Lecturer: Physics, University of Lund (1911-15)

Teacher: Physics, University of Lund (1915-20)

Professor: Physics, University of Lund (1920-23)

Professor: Physics, University of Uppsala (1923-37)

Professor: Physics, University of Stockholm (1937-64)

Administrator: Director, Institute of Physics, University of Stockholm (1937-64)

Nobel Prize for Physics 1924

Hughes Medal 1934

International Bureau of Weights and Measures 1937-56

International Union of Pure and Applied Physics President, 1938-47

Rumford Medal 1940

IOP Duddell Medal 1948

French Academy of Sciences Foreign Member

Royal Society 1954

Royal Society of Edinburgh

Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

German Ancestry

Swedish Ancestry

Author of books:

Die Elektrische Energieströmung (Supply of Electrical Energy) (1913, non-fiction)

Elektricitet, Materia, Energi (Electricity, Matter, Energy) (1921, non-fiction)

Spektroskopie der Röntgenstrahlen (Spectroscopy of X-Rays) (1923, non-fiction)

Naturlagarna och de Hela Talen (Laws of Nature and Whole Numbers) (1927, non-fiction)

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