Gustaf Dalén
Swedish Nobel Laureate and industrialist (1869–1937)
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Swedish engineer who won the 1912 Nobel Prize in Physics for inventing automatic regulators that made lighthouse lighting actually work without someone babysitting it 24/7.
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Nils Gustaf Dalén 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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