Biography:Gustaf Ising
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| Born | Finja, Skåne County |
| Died | February 5, 1960 (aged 76) Danderyd, Stockholm County |
| Other names | Gustav Ising |
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| Known for | Conceptualising the linear particle accelerator |
| Spouse(s) | Aina Hildegard Maria Ising née Schoug (m. 1924) |
| Children | Anna Maria Berggren née Ising |
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| Thesis | Investigations 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
- ↑ "Gustaf A Ising". Svenskt biografiskt lexikon. https://sok.riksarkivet.se/sbl/Presentation.aspx?id=11994.
- ↑ Sveriges dödbok 1947-2003, CD-ROM v3.0. Sveriges Släktforskarförbund. 2005.
- ↑ Rensfelt, K.-G.. "Preface". Proceedings of the European Particle Accelerator Conference 1998 (Stockholm). http://epaper.kek.jp/e98/PREFACE.PDF.
- ↑ Undersökningar rörande elektrometrar (en.: Investigations concerning electrometers) (Ph.D. thesis) (in Swedish). Stockholm College (Gleerup). 1919. p. 374.CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)
- ↑ (in Swedish) Vem är det: Svensk biografisk handbok 1939. P A Norstedt & Söners Förlag. 1939. pp. 403.
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