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Gustaf Dalén
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Swedish Nobel Laureate and industrialist (1869–1937)
Gustaf Dalén was a Swedish inventor and industrialist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1912 for his work on automatic lighting systems. His innovations in gas lighting technology had significant practical applications and made him an important figure in early 20th-century industrial development.
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Nobel Prize
- The Nobel Prize in Physics1912
“for his invention of automatic regulators for use in conjunction with gas accumulators for illuminating lighthouses and buoys”
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Gustaf
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Sweden
- Occupation
- industrialist
- Educated at
- Chalmers University of Technology
- Employer
- AGA AB
- Languages spoken
- Swedish
- Image
- Nils Gustaf Dalén.jpg
- Residence
- Sweden
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- Commons category
- Gustaf Dalén
- date of birth
- 1869-11-30
- date of death
- 1937-12-09
- medical condition
- blindness
- member of
- Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
- nominated for
- Nobel Prize in Physics
- name in native language
- Nils Gustaf Dalén
- interested in
- physics
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Encyclopedic overview
Nils Gustaf Dalén ( Swedish: [ˈɡɵ̂sːtav daˈleːn] ; 30 November 1869 – 9 December 1937) was a Swedish engineer and inventor who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1912 "for his invention of automatic regulators for use in conjunction with gas accumulators for illuminating lighthouses and buoys."
Early life
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