1. Manne Siegbahn graduated in Stockholm 1906 and began his studies at Lund University in the same year.
10 Facts About Manne Siegbahn
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Manne Siegbahn obtained his doctorate at the Lund University in 1911, his thesis was titled Magnetische Feldmessungen.
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Manne Siegbahn became acting professor for Rydberg when his health was failing, and succeeded him as full professor in 1920.
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In 1937, Manne Siegbahn was appointed Director of the Physics Department of the Nobel Institute of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
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The institute research groups have been reorganized since, but the name lives on in the Manne Siegbahn Laboratory hosted by Stockholm University.
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Manne Siegbahn began his studies of X-ray spectroscopy in 1914.
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Manne Siegbahn developed a convention for naming the different spectral lines that are characteristic to elements in X-ray spectroscopy, the Siegbahn notation.
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Manne Siegbahn was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1924.
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Manne Siegbahn won the Hughes Medal 1934 and Rumford Medal 1940.
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Manne Siegbahn was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society in 1954.