Curriculum Vitae

Born April 20, 1918, in Lund, Sweden. Parents: Manne Siegbahn and Karin Högbom. Married May 23, 1944, to Anna Brita Rhedin. Three children: Per (1945), Hans (1947) and Nils (1953). Attended the Uppsala Gymnasium; Studied physics, mathematics and chemistry at the University of Uppsala from 1936 until 1942. Graduated in Stockholm 1944. Docent in physics that year. Research associate at the Nobel Institute for Physics 1942 - 1951. Professor of physics at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm from 1951 to 1954. Professor and 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, Royal Academy of Arts and Science of Uppsala, Royal Physiographical Society of Lund, Societas Scienti arum Fennica, Norwegian Academy of Science, Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters, Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Membre du Comite International des Poids et Mesures, Paris, President of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP).

Awards

The Lindblom Prize 1945

Björkén Prize 1955

Celsius Medal 1962

Sixten Heyman Award, University of Gothenburg 1971

Harrison Howe Award, Rochester 1973

Maurice F. Hasler Award, Cleveland 1975

Charles Frederick Chandler Medal, Columbia University, New York 1976

Björkén Prize 1977

Torbern Bergman Medal 1979

Pittsburgh Award of Spectroscopy 1982

Doctor of Science, honoris cause

University of Durham 1972

University of Basel 1980

University of Liège 1981

Upsala College, New Jersey, 1982

Research in physics covering atomic and molecular physics, nuclear physics, plasma physics and electron optics. Main research activity in the field of electron spectroscopy, ESCA. Books: Beta- and Gamma-Ray Spectroscopy, 1955; Alpha-, Beta- and Gamma-Ray Spectroscopy, 1965; ESCA-Atomic, Molecular and Solid State Structure Studied by Means of Electron Spectroscopy, 1967; ESCA Applied to Free Molecules, 1969.

Surveys on ESCA

Electron Spectroscopy for Chemical Analysis, Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. London A, 33 - 57, 1970

Electron Spectroscopy, Encyclopedia of Science and Technology, McGrawHill, 1971

Perspectives and Problems in Electron Spectroscopy, Proc. Asilomar Conference 1971, Ed. D. A. Shirley, North Holland, 1972

Electron Spectroscopy-A New Way of Looking into Matter, Endeavor 32, 1973

Electron Spectroscopy for Chemical Analysis, Proc. of Conf. on Atomic Physics 3, Boulder, 1972, Ed. S.J. Smith and G. K. Walters, Plenum, 1973

Electron Spectroscopy for Chemical Analysis (together with C.J. Allan), MTP Int. Rev. of Science, Vol. 12, Analytical Chemistry, Part 1, Butterworths, 1973

Electron Spectroscopy-An Outlook, Proc. Namur Conference 1974, Elsevier 1974

Electron Spectroscopy and Molecular Structure, Pure and Appl. Chem. 48, Pergamon, 1976

Electron Spectroscopy for Solids, Surfaces, Liquids and Free Molecules, in Molecular Spectroscopy, Ch. 15, Heyden 1977

From Nobel Lectures, Physics 1981-1990, Editor-in-Charge Tore Frängsmyr, Editor Gösta Ekspång, World Scientific Publishing Co., Singapore, 1993

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