Kai M. Siegbahn (1918-2007)

Awarded the Prize “for his contribution to the development of high-resolution electron spectroscopy.”

Swedish physicist. Siegbahn was born on April 20, 1918 in Lund, Sweden. He studied at the University of Uppsala from 1936 until 1942, but graduated in the University of Stockholm in 1944. He became Professor of Physics at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm from 1951 to 1954, Professor Head of the Physics Department at the University of Uppsala since 1954. Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences Royal Society of Science. Siegbahn died in Angelholm, Sweden on July 20, 2007.