Biography:Gustaf Ising

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Gustaf Adolf Ising
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Portrait of Gustaf Adolf Ising
Born
Finja, Skåne County
DiedFebruary 5, 1960(1960-02-05) (aged 76)
Danderyd, Stockholm County
Other namesGustav Ising
Education
Known forConceptualising the linear particle accelerator
Spouse(s)
Aina Hildegard Maria Ising née Schoug (m. 1924)
ChildrenAnna Maria Berggren née Ising
Scientific career
Fields
Institutions
ThesisInvestigations concerning electrometers (1919)

Gustaf Adolf Ising (Swedish pronunciation: [ˈɡɵ̂sːtav ˈɑ̂ːdɔlf ˈîːsɪŋ];[citation needed] 19 February 1883 - 5 February 1960) was a Swedish metrologist, geophysicist, and accelerator physicist.[1][2]

Biography

Ising earned his first academic degree (filosofie kandidat/Bachelor of Arts) at Uppsala University in 1903 and continued studying at Stockholm University[3] receiving his Ph.D. in 1919,[4] and receiving an honorary professor title in 1934.[5]

He is best known for the invention of the linear accelerator concept in 1924,Cite error: Closing </ref> missing for <ref> tag

References

  1. "Gustaf A Ising". Svenskt biografiskt lexikon. https://sok.riksarkivet.se/sbl/Presentation.aspx?id=11994. 
  2. Sveriges dödbok 1947-2003, CD-ROM v3.0. Sveriges Släktforskarförbund. 2005. 
  3. Rensfelt, K.-G.. "Preface". Proceedings of the European Particle Accelerator Conference 1998 (Stockholm). http://epaper.kek.jp/e98/PREFACE.PDF. 
  4. Undersökningar rörande elektrometrar (en.: Investigations concerning electrometers) (Ph.D. thesis) (in Swedish). Stockholm College (Gleerup). 1919. p. 374.CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)
  5. (in Swedish) Vem är det: Svensk biografisk handbok 1939. P A Norstedt & Söners Förlag. 1939. pp. 403.