Background
EDLEN, Bengt was born on November 2, 1906 in. Gusum. Son of Gustaf and Maria Edlen (nee Rundberg).
Astronomer astrophysicist physicist university professor
EDLEN, Bengt was born on November 2, 1906 in. Gusum. Son of Gustaf and Maria Edlen (nee Rundberg).
Uppsala University.
Arrhenius Gold Medal of Swedish Academy, of Sciences, Gold Medal of Royal Astronomical Society, London, H. North. Potts Medal of Franklin Institute, Pennsylvania, Mees Medal of Optical Society of America, Henry Draper Medal of North.A.S., Washington.He participated in solving the Corona Mystery: unidentified spectral lines in the sun"s spectrum were speculatively believed to originate from a hitherto unidentified chemical element termed coronium. Edlén later showed that those lines are from multiply ionized iron (Fe-XIV). His discovery was not immediately accepted, since the alleged ionization required a temperature of millions of degrees.
Later such solar corona temperatures were verified.
He also made an important contribution in analyzing spectra of Wolf-Rayet stars. Edlén was professor at Lund University from 1944 to 1973.
He graduated from high school in Norrköping in 1926 and entered the University of Uppsala, eventually graduating with a Doctor of Philosophy in 1934.
Swedish, Danish, Norwegian Academies of Sciences, Academic des Sciences, Paris, American Academy, of Arts and Sciences, et cetera
Married 1st Ruth East. Gronwall in 1935, 2nd Elfriede I. Muhlbach in 1940.