Bengt Edlén
Bengt Edlén (2 November 1906, Gusum – 10 February 1993, Lund) was a Swedish professor of physics and astronomer who specialized in
Biography
Bengt Edlén was born on 2 November 1906 in Gusum, Sweden. He graduated from high school in Norrköping in 1926 and entered the Uppsala University the same year.[1] He was awarded his bachelor's degree after three semester and graduated with a PhD in 1934 with his thesis about the spectra and energy of the elements in the beginning of the periodic system.[2]
He received international fame after finding unidentified spectral lines in the Sun's
Edlén was professor at Lund University from 1944 to 1973. He was elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1947. He received the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society 1945 for the solution of the Corona Mystery,[6] the Howard N. Potts Medal in 1946 for researches in the extreme ultraviolet,[7] and the Henry Draper Medal of the National Academy of Sciences[8] in 1968.
References
- ISBN 978-0-387-31022-0. Retrieved 22 August 2012.
- ISBN 9789178449729.
- ISBN 9789175453200.
- Bibcode:1933Obs....56..196B.
- hdl:2268/72172.
- ^ "Winners of the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society". Royal Astronomical Society. Archived from the original on 25 May 2011. Retrieved 24 February 2011.
- ^ "The Franklin Institute Awards". The Franklin Institute. 3 February 2014. Archived from the original on 21 September 2013. Retrieved 30 April 2017.
- ^ "Henry Draper Medal". National Academy of Sciences. Archived from the original on 26 January 2013. Retrieved 24 February 2011.
External links
- Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society awarded to Edlén
- Pressmeddelande: Ny utställning på Lunds Universitetmuseum (in Swedish)
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