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Oskar Klein

Swedish physicist · Sweden · Scientists · Lived 1894 to 1977 · aged 82

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Oskar Benjamin Klein was a Swedish theoretical physicist now best remembered for the Klein-Gordon equation of relativistic quantum mechanics, the Kaluza-Klein theory, a unified field theory of gravitation and electromagnetism, and the Klein-Nishina cross section in quantum electrodynamics.

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Oskar Klein (first row, fifth right) at the commemoration meeting for Niels Bohr in Copenhagen in 1963Oskar Klein (first row, fifth right) at the commemoration meeting for Niels Bohr in Copenhagen in 1963

Awards

Max Planck Medal1959
Björkén Prize1937

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Sweden
Category
Scientists
Type
Scientist
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1894 to 1977 · aged 82

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