Siegbahn was born in Lund, Sweden, son of Manne Siegbahn the 1924 physics Nobel Prize winner. Siegbahn earned his doctorate at the Stockholm University in 1944.
Kai Siegbahn wurde als zweiter Sohn des Physiknobelpreisträgers Manne Siegbahn und seiner Frau Karin Högbom geboren. Nach dem Besuch des Gymnasiums in Uppsala studierte er von 1936 bis 1942 Physik, Mathematik und Chemie an der Universität…
In the 1950s Kai Siegbahn developed methods for achieving highly accurate measurements of energy levels in atoms by irradiating them with photons and measuring the energy of the electrons emitted using the photoelectric effect.
Kai Manne Börje Siegbahn was a Swedish physicist, corecipient with Nicolaas Bloembergen and Arthur Leonard Schawlow of the 1981 Nobel Prize for Physics for their revolutionary work in spectroscopy, particularly the spectroscopic analysis of…