Manne Siegbahn

About Manne Siegbahn

Who is it?: Physicist
Birth Day: December 03, 1886
Birth Place: Örebro, Sweden, Swedish
Died On: 26 September 1978(1978-09-26) (aged 91)\nStockholm, Sweden
Birth Sign: Capricorn
Alma mater: University of Lund
Known for: X-ray spectroscopy
Spouse(s): Karin Högbom
Children: Bo Kai
Awards: Björkénska priset (1919) Nobel Prize for Physics (1924) Hughes Medal (1934) Rumford Medal (1940) ForMemRS (1954) Duddell Medal and Prize (1948)
Fields: Physics
Institutions: University of Lund University of Uppsala University of Stockholm

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Manne Siegbahn was born on December 03, 1886 in Örebro, Sweden, Swedish, is Physicist. Manne Siegbahn was a Swedish physicist, who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1924, for his work on X-ray spectroscopy. Born in late nineteenth century in the southern Sweden, he had his schooling at Stockholm and university education at Lund. Starting his career as a docent at the age of twenty-five at the University of Lund, he discovered a new group of wavelengths, known as the M series, in X-ray emission spectra, at the age of thirty and became full professor at thirty-four. Later, he shifted to the University of Uppsala and remained there for next fourteen years. Here, he continued with his work on X-ray spectroscopy and established that X-rays, just as light, were electromagnetic radiation. It was his work on X-ray spectroscopy, which earned him his Nobel Prize in Physics. Later, he joined University of Stockholm and in the same year, he was chosen as the first director of the Nobel Institute of Physics, established by the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences. Here he initiated studies on nuclear physics and turned it into a center of excellence. Young scientists from all over the world came here to work under his guidance. Today, the institute is known as Manne Siegbahn Institute.
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Siegbahn was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1924. He won the Hughes Medal 1934 and Rumford Medal 1940. In 1944, he patented the Siegbahn pump. Siegbahn was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society (ForMemRS) in 1954.

Biography/Timeline

1906

Siegbahn was born in Örebro, Sweden, and his parents was Georg Siegbahn and Emma Zetterberg. He graduated in Stockholm 1906 and begun his studies at Lund University the same year. During his education he was amanuensis for Johannes Rydberg. In 1908 he studied at the University of Göttingen. He obtained his Ph.D. at the Lund University in 1911, his thesis was titled Magnetische Feldmessungen (magnetic field measurements). He became acting professor for Rydberg when his health was failing, and succeeded him as full professor in 1920. However, in 1922 he left Lund for a professorship at the Uppsala University.

1914

Siegbahn married Karin Högbom in 1914. They had two children: Bo Siegbahn (1915–2008), a diplomat and Politician, and Kai Siegbahn (1918–2007), a Physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1981 for his contribution to the development of X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy.

1924

Siegbahn was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1924. He won the Hughes Medal 1934 and Rumford Medal 1940. In 1944, he patented the Siegbahn pump. Siegbahn was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society (ForMemRS) in 1954.

1937

In 1937, Siegbahn was appointed Director of the Physics Department of the Nobel Institute of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. In 1988 this was renamed the Manne Siegbahn Institute (MSI). The institute research groups have been reorganized since, but the name lives on in the Manne Siegbahn Laboratory hosted by Stockholm University.