Manne Siegbahn

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**Manne Siegbahn** <tr><td colspan="2" style="text-align: center;">Image:Manne Siegbahn.jpg
Karl Manne Georg Siegbahn</td></tr>
Born	December 3,1886 Örebro, Sweden <tr><th>Died</th><td>September 26, 1978 Stockholm, Sweden</td></tr><tr><th>Residence</th><td>Image:Flag of Sweden.svg Sweden</td></tr><tr><th>Nationality</th><td>Image:Flag of Sweden.svg Swedish</td></tr><tr><th>Field</th><td>Physicist</td></tr><tr><th>Institution</th><td>University of Lund</br>University of Uppsala</br> University of Stockholm</td></tr><tr><th>Alma Mater</th><td>University of Lund</td></tr><tr><th>Known for</th><td>X-ray spectroscopy</td></tr><tr><th>Notable Prizes</th><td>Nobel Prize for Physics (1924)</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2">He is the father of nobel prize winner Kai M. Siegbahn.</td></tr>

Karl Manne Georg Siegbahn (December 3,1886 - September 26, 1978) was a Swedish physicist, who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1924 for his discoveries and research in the field of X-ray spectroscopy. He was born in Örebro, Sweden.

Karl Manne Georg Siegbahn obtained his Ph.D. at the Lund University in 1911, his thesis was titled Magnetische Feldmessungen (magnetic field measurements).

His son Kai Siegbahn received the Nobel Prize in Physics in the year 1981.

He married Karin Högbom (m. 1914)and their children were Bo Siegbahn (diplomat, b. 1915), Kai M. Siegbahn (physicist and Nobel laureate, b. 1918).

He won the Hughes Medal (1934) and Rumford Medal (1940).