Ernst Joseph Nordgren, born 16 November 1947 in Örebro, is a Swedish physicist.
Nordgren graduated as a B.Sc. from Uppsala University in 1971 and received his Ph.D. in physics in 1977.[1] In 1979 he was made docent and since 1988, he is a professor of soft X-ray physics at Uppsala. Since 1 July 2008 Nordgren is vice rector for the area of science and engineering at Uppsala university.[2]
Nordgren is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences since 1996, and was a member of the Nobel Committee for Physics from 2001 to 2009, and the Committee's chairman in 2008 and 2009.[3] He is also a member of the Royal Society of Sciences and Letters in Uppsala since 1981 and of the Royal Society of Sciences in Uppsala since 2005.
References
edit- ^ Nordgren, Joseph (1977): X-ray emission spectra of free molecules. Abstracts of Uppsala dissertations from the Faculty of Science, 0345-0058 ; 418, ISBN 91-554-0623-8
- ^ Press announcement from Uppsala University, April 1, 2008: Tre nya vicerektorer vid Uppsala universitet (in Swedish)
- ^ Joseph Nordgren's web page Archived 2011-10-09 at the Wayback Machine, accessed on August 4, 2009