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Manne Siegbahn
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Person

Manne Siegbahn

1886 – 1978 · aged 92

Swedish physicist (1886-1978)

Born
3 Dec 1886 · Örebro Nikolai parish
Died
24 Sept 1978 · Engelbrekt church parish
Part ofSweden800 CE – today

Life timeline

Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.

Showing 106 years
  1. 3 Dec 1886BornBorn in Örebro Nikolai parish
  2. 1923AwardBjörkén Prize
  3. 1924AwardNobel Prize in Physics
  4. 1933AwardGuthrie Lecture
  5. 1934AwardHughes Medal
  6. 1940AwardRumford Medal
  7. 1948AwardDennis Gabor Medal and Prize
  8. 1952AwardDoctor honoris causa from the University of Paris
  9. 1954AwardForeign Member of the Royal Society
  10. 1957AwardHonorary doctor of Royal Institute of Technology
  11. 24 Sept 1978DiedDied in Engelbrekt church parish

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1886 – 1978).

  1. 18961896 Summer Olympics
  2. 1898Spanish–American War
  3. 1904 – 1905Russo-Japanese War
  4. 1914 – 1918World War I
  5. 1915 – 1923Armenian genocide
  6. 1917Balfour Declaration
  7. 1917February Revolution
  8. 1917October Revolution
  9. 1917 – 1922Russian Civil War
  10. 1919 – 1920Paris Peace Conference
  11. 1920Treaty of Versailles
  12. 1933 – 1945The Holocaust
  13. 19341934 FIFA World Cup
  14. 19361936 Summer Olympics
  15. 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
  16. 19381938 FIFA World Cup
  17. 1938Munich Agreement
  18. 1939 – 1940Winter War
  19. 1939 – 1945World War II
  20. 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
  21. 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
  22. 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
  23. 1941Operation Barbarossa
  24. 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
  25. 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  26. 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
  27. 19501950 FIFA World Cup
  28. 1950 – 1953Korean War
  29. 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
  30. 19541954 FIFA World Cup
  31. 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
  32. 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
  33. 1956Suez Crisis
  34. 19581958 FIFA World Cup
  35. 1959Antarctic Treaty System
  36. 19621962 FIFA World Cup
  37. 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
  38. 19661966 FIFA World Cup
  39. 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
  40. 1968Prague Spring

Biography

Karl Manne Georg Siegbahn (Swedish: [ˈmanːɛ ˈsiːgbɑːn]; 3 December 1886 – 24 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."

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