Awards & Winners

Karl Manne Georg Siegbahn

Date of Birth 03-December-1886
Place of Birth Örebro
(Örebro Municipality, Örebro County, Närke, Sweden)
Nationality Sweden
Also know as Manne Siegbahn
Profession Physicist
Karl Manne Georg Siegbahn ForMemRS was a Swedish physicist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1924 "for his discoveries and research in the field of X-ray spectroscopy". Siegbahn was born in Örebro, Sweden. He obtained his Ph.D. at the Lund University in 1911, his thesis was titled Magnetische Feldmessungen. He was acting professor for Johannes Rydberg when his health was failing, and succeeded him as full professor in 1920. Following his Ph.D., he started research on X-ray spectroscopy. This work continued when he moved to the University of Uppsala in 1923. He developed improved experimental apparatus which allowed him to make very accurate measurements of the X-ray wavelengths produced by atoms of different elements. He developed a convention for naming the different spectral lines that are characteristic to elements in X-ray spectroscopy, the Siegbahn notation. Siegbahn's precision measurements drove many developments in quantum theory and atomic physics. In 1937, Siegbahn was appointed Director of the Physics Department of the Nobel Institute of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. In 1988 this was renamed the Manne Siegbahn Institute. The institute research groups have been reorganized since, but the name lives on in the Manne Siegbahn Laboratory hosted by Stockholm University.

Awards by Karl Manne Georg Siegbahn

Check all the awards nominated and won by Karl Manne Georg Siegbahn.

1940


Rumford Medal
(For his pioneer work in high precision X-ray spectroscopy and its applications.)

1934


Hughes Medal
(For his work as a physicist and technician on long-wave X-rays.)

1924


Nobel Prize in Physics
(for his discoveries and research in the field of X-ray spectroscopy.)