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Manne Siegbahn
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| Manne Siegbahn | |
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 Karl Manne Georg Siegbahn |
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| Born | December 3, 1886 Örebro, Sweden |
| Died | September 26, 1978 (aged 91) Stockholm, Sweden |
| Residence | Sweden |
| Nationality | Swedish |
| Field | Physicist |
| Institutions | University of Lund University of Uppsala University of Stockholm |
| Alma mater | University of Lund |
| Known for | X-ray spectroscopy |
| Notable prizes |  Nobel Prize for Physics (1924) |
| 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.
Siegbahn obtained his Ph.D. at the Lund University in 1911, his thesis was titled Magnetische Feldmessungen (magnetic field measurements). He was acting professor for Janne Rydberg when his health was failing, and succeeded him as full professor in 1915.
His son Kai Siegbahn also received the Nobel Prize in Physics, in 1981.
He married Karin Högbom 1914 and their children were Bo Siegbahn (diplomat, b. 1915) and Kai M. Siegbahn (physicist and Nobel laureate, b. 1918).
He won the Hughes Medal 1934 and Rumford Medal 1940.
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Wilhelm Röntgen (1901) • Hendrik Lorentz / Pieter Zeeman (1902) • Henri Becquerel / Pierre Curie / Marie Curie (1903) • Lord Rayleigh (1904) • Philipp Lenard (1905) • J. J. Thomson (1906) • Albert Michelson (1907) • Gabriel Lippmann (1908) • Guglielmo Marconi / Ferdinand Braun (1909) • Johannes van der Waals (1910) • Wilhelm Wien (1911) • Gustaf Dalén (1912) • Kamerlingh Onnes (1913) • Max von Laue (1914) • W. L. Bragg / W. H. Bragg (1915) • Charles Barkla (1917) • Max Planck (1918) • Johannes Stark (1919) • Charles Guillaume (1920) • Albert Einstein (1921) • Niels Bohr (1922) • Robert Millikan (1923) • Manne Siegbahn (1924) • James Franck / Gustav Hertz (1925) |
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| NAME | Siegbahn, Manne |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Siegbahn, Karl Manne Georg |
| SHORT DESCRIPTION | Swedish Physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 3, 1886 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Örebro, Sweden |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 26, 1978 |
| PLACE OF DEATH | Stockholm, Sweden |
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