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 |
Positions held
Kai Siegbahn passed away July 20, 2007
- 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
- atomic and molecular physics
- nuclear physics
- plasma physics and electron optics
- electron spectroscopy
Honours and Awards
- The Lindblom Prize 1945
- Björkén Prize 1955
- Celsius Medal 1962
- Sixten Heyman Award, University of Gothenburg 1971
- Harrison Howe Award, Rochester 1973
- Maurice F. Hasler Award, Cleveland 1975
- Charles Frederick Chandler Medal, Columbia University, New York 1976
- Björkén Prize 1977
- Torbern Bergman Medal 1979
- Pittsburgh Award of Spectroscopy 1982
- Doctor of Science, honoris cause: University of Durham 1972; University of Basel 1980; University of Liège 1981; Upsala College, New Jersey, 1982
- The Nobel Prize in Physics 1981
