Siegbahn

[ seeg-bahn ]

noun
  1. Karl Man·ne Ge·org [kahrl mahn-nuh-yey-awr-yuh], /kɑrl ˈmɑn nə ˈyeɪ ɔr yə/, 1886–1978, Swedish physicist: Nobel Prize 1924.

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Siegbahn

/ (ˈsiːɡbɑːn) /


noun
  1. Kai (kaɪ). 1918–2007, Swedish physicist who worked on electron spectroscopy: Nobel prize for physics 1981

  2. his father, Karl Manne Georg (kɑːrl ˈmanə ˈjeːɔrj). 1886–1978, Swedish physicist, who discovered the M series in X-ray spectroscopy: Nobel prize for physics 1924

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