biography
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Dalén, (Nils) Gustav
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pronunciation:
[dalayn]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1869–1937)
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| biography:
| Engineer and inventor, born in Stenstorp, SC Sweden. He studied at Göteborg and Zürich, and invented automatic acetylene lighting for unmanned lighthouses and railway signals, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1912. He was blinded a year later by an explosion in a chemical experiment, but continued to work, developing the AGA cooking stove in 1922. |
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