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Siegbahn
1. Kai . born 1918, Swedish physicist who worked on electron spectroscopy: Nobel prize for physics 1981
2. his father, Karl Manne Georg . 1886--1978, Swedish physicist, who discovered the M series in X-ray spectroscopy: Nobel prize for physics 1924

siegbahn [′sēg‚bän]
(spectroscopy)
A unit of length, formerly used to express wavelengths of x-rays, equal to 1/3029.45 of the spacing of the (200) planes of calcite at 18°C, or to (1.00202 ± 0.00003) × 10-13meter. Also known as x-ray unit; X-unit. Symbolized X; XU.


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Lindahl B, Toss H, Siegbahn A, Venge P, Wallentin L.
At his opening address at the 12th Nobel Symposium on Radiocarbon Variations and Absolute Chronology [12] in Uppsala, Nobelist Kai Siegbahn emphasized that "This subject is [now] interesting to specialists in many different fields, as can be seen from the list of participants, showing archaeologists, chemists, dendrochronologists, geophysicists, varved-clay geologists, and physicists" (Ref.
109]Cd are used to fluoresce the K-shell X-rays of lead (in increasing energy, those with Siegbahn notation: K[[Alpha].
 
 
 
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