Nils Gustaf Dalén
Physicist, Academic
1869 – 1937
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Who was Nils Gustaf Dalén?
Nils Gustaf Dalén was a Swedish Nobel Laureate and industrialist, the founder of the AGA company and inventor of the AGA cooker and the Dalén light. In 1912 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his "invention of automatic regulators for use in conjunction with gas accumulators for illuminating lighthouses and buoys".
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- Born
- Nov 30, 1869
Stenstorp - Also known as
- Gustaf Dalen
- Nationality
- Sweden
- Profession
- Education
- Chalmers University of Technology
- Lived in
- Sweden
- Västergötland
- Died
- Dec 9, 1937
Lidingö
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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