Siegbahn

American  

[seeg-bahn] / ˈsig bɑn /

noun

1. Karl Manne Georg 1886–1978, Swedish physicist: Nobel Prize 1924.

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Siegbahn British  

/ 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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Example Sentences

He was one of three physicists awarded the Nobel Prize in 1981, along with Kai M. Siegbahn of Sweden and Arthur L. Schawlow of the United States.

From Washington Post

In the presentation speech, Professor K. M. G. Siegbahn of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences praised the cyclotron as “without comparison, the most extensive and complicated apparatus construction carried out so far.”

From Literature

Half of the physics prize will go to Kai Siegbahn, 63, of Sweden's Uppsala University, who follows in the footsteps of his late father Karl Siegbahn, the 1924 laureate in physics.*

From Time Magazine Archive

Starting in the 1950s, Siegbahn developed a related analytic technique called electron spectroscopy.

From Time Magazine Archive

Siegbahn overcame these difficulties by devising an ingenious new focusing device.

From Time Magazine Archive