Nils Gustaf Dalén
1869 – 1937 · aged 68
Swedish Nobel Laureate and industrialist (1869–1937)
- Born
- 30 Nov 1869 · place not recorded
- Died
- 9 Dec 1937 · Lidingö Parish
Life timeline
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- 30 Nov 1869BornBorn
- 1912AwardNobel Prize in Physics
- 9 Dec 1937DiedDied in Lidingö Parish
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Meanwhile in the world
Major world events during their lifetime (1869 – 1937).
- 1870 – 1871Franco-Prussian War
- 18961896 Summer Olympics
- 1898Spanish–American War
- 1904 – 1905Russo-Japanese War
- 1914 – 1918World War I
- 1915 – 1923Armenian genocide
- 1917Balfour Declaration
- 1917February Revolution
- 1917October Revolution
- 1917 – 1922Russian Civil War
- 1919 – 1920Paris Peace Conference
- 1920Treaty of Versailles
- 1933 – 1945The Holocaust
- 19341934 FIFA World Cup
- 19361936 Summer Olympics
- 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
Biography
Nils Gustaf Dalén (Swedish: [ˈɡɵ̂sːtav daˈleːn] ; 30 November 1869 – 9 December 1937) was a Swedish engineer and inventor who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1912 "for his invention of automatic regulators for use in conjunction with gas accumulators for illuminating lighthouses and buoys."
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