Manne Siegbahn
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![]() Karl Manne Georg Siegbahn |
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Born | December 3, 1886 Örebro, Sweden |
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Died | September 26, 1978 Stockholm, Sweden |
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Field | Physicist |
Institution | University of Lund University of Uppsala University of Stockholm |
Alma mater | University of Lund |
Known for | X-ray spectroscopy |
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He is the father of nobel prize winner Kai M. Siegbahn. |
Karl Manne Georg Siegbahn (December 3, 1886 - September 26, 1978) was a Swedish physicist, who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1924 for his discoveries and research in the field of X-ray spectroscopy. He was born in Örebro, Sweden.
Karl Manne Georg Siegbahn obtained his Ph.D. at the Lund University in 1911, his thesis was titled Magnetische Feldmessungen (magnetic field measurements).
His son Kai Siegbahn received the Nobel Prize in Physics in the year 1981.
He married Karin Högbom (m. 1914)and their children were Bo Siegbahn (diplomat, b. 1915), Kai M. Siegbahn (physicist and Nobel laureate, b. 1918).
He won the Hughes Medal (1934) and Rumford Medal (1940).
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1901: Röntgen 1902: Lorentz, Zeeman 1903: Becquerel, P. Curie, M. Curie 1904: Rayleigh 1905: Lenard 1906: Thomson 1907: Michelson 1908: Lippmann 1909: Marconi, Braun 1910: van der Waals 1911: Wien 1912: Dalén 1913: Kamerlingh Onnes 1914: von Laue 1915: W. L. Bragg, W. H. Bragg 1917: Barkla 1918: Planck 1919: Stark 1920: Guillaume 1921: Einstein 1922: N. Bohr 1923: Millikan 1924: Siegbahn 1925: Franck, Hertz