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Dalén

American  
[duh-leyn, da-] / dəˈleɪn, dæ- /

noun

  1. Gustaf 1869–1937, Swedish inventor: Nobel Prize in Physics 1912.


Dalén British  
/ daˈleːn /

noun

  1. Nils Gustaf. 1869–1937, Swedish engineer, inventor of an automatic light-controlled valve known as `Solventil'. Nobel prize for physics 1912

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“Maybe 10 or 20 years from now,” says Dalén, who was not involved with the new work, “this will be a routine method used in all wildlife conservation.”

From Science Magazine • Dec. 5, 2023

"Our 700,000-year-old woolly mammoth may have had larger ears than the mammoths of the last Ice Age," Centre for Palaeogenetics evolutionary geneticist and study senior author Love Dalén said.

From Reuters • Apr. 7, 2023

“The canine may have been an evolutionary link between wolves and modern dogs,” said Love Dalén, a Swedish geneticist who has sequenced the creature’s genome.

From New York Times • Nov. 2, 2021

I had always assumed the origins of the AGA stove were uniquely British, but this stalwart appliance was actually created about a century ago by blind Swedish physicist Gustaf Dalén, a Nobel Laureate.

From Salon • Mar. 26, 2021

Nils Gustaf Dalén won the 1912 prize in physics for inventing a new kind of lighthouse valve that automatically switched off the beacon at sunrise.

From The Guardian • Oct. 7, 2019