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- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 3 December 1886
- Died
- 26 September 1978, 24 September 1978
- Place of birth
- Örebro, Örebro Nikolai parish
- Place of death
- Engelbrekt church parish
- Sex or gender
- male
- Family name
- Siegbahn
- Spouse
- Karin Högbom
- Child
- Kai Siegbahn, Bo Siegbahn
- Field of work
- physics
- Occupation
- physicist, university teacher
- Citizenship
- Sweden
- Awards
- Björkén Prize, Nobel Prize in Physics, Guthrie Lecture, Hughes Medal, Rumford Medal, Dennis Gabor Medal and Prize, doctor honoris causa from the University of Paris, Foreign Member of the Royal Society
- birth name
- Karl Manne Georg Siegbahn
- described by source
- Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1969–1978), Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, Idun, Physicists: Biographical Dictionary
- doctoral student
- Hannes Alfvén
- educated at
- Lund University, Norra Real
- employer
- Lund University, Uppsala University
- interested in
- physics
- languages spoken, written or signed
- Swedish
- member of
- Royal Society, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, French Academy of Sciences, Royal Physiographic Society in Lund, Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Royal Swedish Academy of War Sciences, Russian Academy of Sciences, Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Lower Saxony, Romanian Academy
- name in native language
- Karl Siegbahn
- notable work
- X-ray spectroscopy
- participant in
- 3rd Solvay Conference on Physics
- place of burial
- Engelbrektskyrkans kolumbarium
- significant person
- Lise Meitner
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