Siegbahn
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noun
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Kai (kaɪ). 1918–2007, Swedish physicist who worked on electron spectroscopy: Nobel prize for physics 1981
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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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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 • Sep. 9, 2017
Two other Nobel Prizewinners, Manne Siegbahn and Theodor Svedberg, lead the work at Sweden's new laboratories.
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
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 "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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