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Kai Siegbahn

1918 - 2007

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Kai Manne Börje Siegbahn (20 April 1918 – 20 July 2007) was a Swedish physicist who shared the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physics. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Kai Siegbahn is the 146th most popular physicist (up from 164th in 2019), the 65th most popular biography from Sweden (up from 84th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Swedish Physicist.

Kai Siegbahn is most famous for his work with x-rays. He was the first to demonstrate that x-rays are electromagnetic waves, and he won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1924 for this work.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Kai Siegbahn ranks 146 out of 851. Before him are Arno Allan Penzias, Pavel Cherenkov, Benoît Paul Émile Clapeyron, Roger Penrose, Louis Néel, and Rudolf Mössbauer. After him are Clifford Shull, John Bardeen, Nicolaas Bloembergen, George Paget Thomson, Walter Houser Brattain, and Henry Moseley.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1918, Kai Siegbahn ranks 18. Before him are Gertrude B. Elion, Robert Wadlow, Helmut Schmidt, Frederick Sanger, Alberto Ascari, and Ernst Otto Fischer. After him are Katherine Johnson, Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, Takashi Kasahara, Jens Christian Skou, Jørn Utzon, and Ken Miles. Among people deceased in 2007, Kai Siegbahn ranks 14. Before him are Karlheinz Stockhausen, Ève Curie, Jean Baudrillard, Mstislav Rostropovich, Carlo Ponti, and Ernst Otto Fischer. After him are Maurice Béjart, Marcel Marceau, Alan Ball Jr., Benazir Bhutto, Sidney Sheldon, and Aden Adde.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Kai Siegbahn ranks 65 out of 1,879. Before him are Gunnar Nordahl (1921), Harry Martinson (1904), Axel von Fersen the Younger (1755), Björn Borg (1956), Verner von Heidenstam (1859), and Anita Ekberg (1931). After him are Theodor Svedberg (1884), Astrid of Sweden (1905), Eric IX of Sweden (1120), Henning Mankell (1948), Arne Tiselius (1902), and Tomas Lindahl (1938).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Sweden

Among physicists born in Sweden, Kai Siegbahn ranks 5. Before him are Manne Siegbahn (1886), Gustaf Dalén (1869), Hannes Alfvén (1908), and Anders Jonas Ångström (1814). After him are Johannes Rydberg (1854), Rolf Maximilian Sievert (1896), Christopher Polhem (1661), Oskar Klein (1894), Wilhelm Hisinger (1766), Vagn Walfrid Ekman (1874), and Knut Ångström (1857).

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