Kai Siegbahn
Swedish physicist (1918-2007) · Sweden · Scientists · Died at 89
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Something wrong?A Swedish physicist who landed half the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physics - quiet work, loud recognition.
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Kai Manne Börje Siegbahn was born on 20 April 1918 in Sweden. He built a career in physics through decades of precision and discipline. In 1981, that path peaked: he shared the Nobel Prize in Physics, joining the short list of names the field remembers. He died on 20 July 2007, eighty-nine years after he started.
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