Kai Siegbahn#
| Sadly, this member passed away. | |
| Membership Number: | 488 |
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| Section: | PHYSICS & ENGINEERING SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 1989 |
| Main Country of Residence: | SWEDEN |
Kai Siegbahn passed away July 20, 2007.
Positions Held
- 1954 - 1984 Professor and head of the Physics Department at the University of Uppsala
- 1951 - 1954 Professor of physics at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm
- 1942 - 1951 Research associate at the Nobel Institute for Physics
- 1944 Docent in physics
Fields of Scholarship
- plasma physics and electron optics
- nuclear physics
- atomic and molecular physics
- electron spectroscopy
Honours and Awards
- 1945 The Lindblom Prize
- 1955 Björkén Prize
- 1962 Celsius Medal
- 1971 Sixten Heyman Award, University of Gothenburg
- 1973 Harrison Howe Award, Rochester
- 1975 Maurice F. Hasler Award, Cleveland
- 1976 Charles Frederick Chandler Medal, Columbia University, New York
- 1977 Björkén Prize
- 1979 Torbern Bergman Medal
- 1982 Pittsburgh Award of Spectroscopy
- Doctor of Science, honoris cause: University of Durham 1972; University of Basel 1980; University of Liège 1981; Upsala College, New Jersey
- 1981 The Nobel Prize in Physics
