Karl Manne Georg Siegbahn (3 December 1886 - 26 September 1978) was a Swedish physicist, and Nobel laureate in physics 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 ...
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Karl Manne Georg Siegbahn (3 December 1886 - 26 September 1978) was a Swedish physicist, and Nobel laureate in physics 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.
He invented in 1944 the Siegbahn pump
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