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Born December 3, 1886 • Örebro • Sweden
Died September 26, 1978 (aged 91) • Stockholm • Sweden
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (1924)
Notable Family Members son Kai Manne Börje Siegbahn
Subjects Of Study X-ray • X-ray spectroscopy • refraction • wavelength
Marie Curie
Marie Curie
Polish-born French physicist
Arthur Holly Compton
Arthur Holly Compton
American physicist
Giacconi, Riccardo
Riccardo Giacconi
Italian physicist
German physicist Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen
Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen
German physicist
Barkla, Charles Glover
Charles Glover Barkla
British physicist
Hannes Alfvén
Hannes Alfvén
Swedish physicist
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Kai Manne Börje Siegbahn
Swedish physicist
Nils Gustaf Dalén.
Nils Dalén
Swedish physicist
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Maurice, 6 duke de Broglie
French physicist
Portrait of Albert Einstein in a suit and tie, looking slightly to the side with a neutral expression.
Albert Einstein
German-American physicist
Werner Karl Heisenberg sits at a desk in a suit with his hands folded, bookshelves in the background.
Werner Heisenberg
German physicist and philosopher
Neils Bohr
Niels Bohr
Danish physicist
Max Planck
Max Planck
German physicist
Enrico Fermi
Enrico Fermi
Italian-born American scientist
Guglielmo Marconi
Guglielmo Marconi
Italian physicist
P.A.M. Dirac
P.A.M. Dirac
English physicist
J.J. Thomson
J.J. Thomson
British physicist
Richard Feynman
Richard Feynman
American physicist
Lev Davidovich Landau
Lev Davidovich Landau
Russian physicist
Wolfgang Pauli, 1945.
Wolfgang Pauli
American physicist

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