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Manne Siegbahn

1886 - 1978

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Karl Manne Georg Siegbahn (Swedish: [ˈmanːɛ ˈsiːgbɑːn]; 3 December 1886 – 26 September 1978) was a Swedish physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1924 "for his discoveries and research in the field of X-ray spectroscopy". Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Manne Siegbahn is the 81st most popular physicist (down from 78th in 2019), the 33rd most popular biography from Sweden (up from 44th in 2019) and the most popular Swedish Physicist.

Manne Siegbahn is most famous for his work in the field of X-ray crystallography.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Manne Siegbahn ranks 81 out of 851. Before him are Johannes Diderik van der Waals, Edward Teller, James Chadwick, Hermann von Helmholtz, Christian Doppler, and Ernst Mach. After him are Luis Walter Alvarez, Victor Francis Hess, Gustaf Dalén, Allan MacLeod Cormack, Johannes Stark, and Gustav Ludwig Hertz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1886, Manne Siegbahn ranks 7. Before him are Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, David Ben-Gurion, Alfonso XIII of Spain, Diego Rivera, Robert Schuman, and Robert Robinson. After him are Oskar Kokoschka, Béla Kun, Jean Arp, Sergey Kirov, Mir Osman Ali Khan, and Roman von Ungern-Sternberg. Among people deceased in 1978, Manne Siegbahn ranks 7. Before him are Pope John Paul I, Pope Paul VI, Golda Meir, Kurt Gödel, Aram Khachaturian, and Santiago Bernabéu Yeste. After him are Aldo Moro, Jacques Brel, Mohammed Daoud Khan, Giorgio de Chirico, Robert Shaw, and Harry Martinson.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Manne Siegbahn ranks 33 out of 1,879. Before him are Charles X Gustav of Sweden (1622), Charles XIII of Sweden (1748), Dieterich Buxtehude (1637), Ingrid of Sweden (1910), Gustav III of Sweden (1746), and Greta Garbo (1905). After him are Ulrika Eleonora, Queen of Sweden (1688), Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden (1778), Agnetha Fältskog (1950), Gustaf Dalén (1869), Charles IX of Sweden (1550), and Allvar Gullstrand (1862).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Sweden

Among physicists born in Sweden, Manne Siegbahn ranks 1. After him are Gustaf Dalén (1869), Hannes Alfvén (1908), Anders Jonas Ångström (1814), Kai Siegbahn (1918), 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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