Manne Siegbahn
Swedish physicist (1886-1978)
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Lived 1886–1978, aged 92Sweden
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Updated 2026-06-21
He built instruments so precise they could split X-rays into their component wavelengths — and in 1924 the Nobel committee handed him the physics prize for it.
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Karl Manne Georg Siegbahn was born in Sweden on 3 December 1886. He trained as a physicist and turned his attention to X-rays, then still a young and unruly field. His breakthroughs came in spectroscopy: he developed techniques and apparatus that let him measure X-ray wavelengths with unprecedented accuracy, revealing structure where others saw only blur. The Nobel Prize in Physics arrived in 1924, citing his discoveries and research in X-ray spectroscopy. He continued working until late in life, dying on 26 September 1978 at ninety-one.
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