Siegbahn
[ seeg-bahn ]
/ ˈsig bɑn /
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noun
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
Kai (kaɪ). 1918–2007, Swedish physicist who worked on electron spectroscopy: Nobel prize for physics 1981
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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