Sigvard Eklund

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Sigvard Eklund

Sigvard Arne Eklund (born June 19, 1911 in Kiruna , Sweden, † January 30, 2000 in Vienna ) was a Swedish scientist and from 1961 to 1981 General Director of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).

Life

Eklund studied at Uppsala University , where he obtained a Master of Science degree in 1936 . From 1937 to 1945 he worked as a scientist for the Nobel Institute for Physics. In 1946 he received his doctorate from Uppsala University as a Doctor of Science .

From 1946 to 1950 he worked as a scientist for the Swedish Research Institute for Defense ( Totalförsvarets forskningsinstitut, FOI ) in Stockholm . From 1946 to 1956 he was Assistant Professor of Nuclear Physics at the Royal Technical University in Stockholm. From 1950 to 1956 he was also head of research at AB Atomenergi in Stockholm, a Swedish atomic energy company. From 1950 he was initially deputy managing director and headed the reactor development department from 1957 to 1961. In 1954 the first Swedish nuclear research reactor went into operation, which was created under his leadership.

In 1957 he was Secretary General of the Second International Conference of the United Nations on the Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy. In 1961 he was appointed director general of the International Atomic Energy Commission to succeed William Sterling Cole . He exercised this office with four new elections (1965, 1969, 1974 and 1977) over five terms from December 1, 1961 to November 30, 1981; his successor was Hans Blix . During his term of office, the technical and scientific prerequisites for the work of the atomic energy organization were created. He agreed with the IAEA laboratory in Monaco that it should also investigate the effects of radioactivity on marine organisms in the future. The IAEA laboratory in Seibersdorf in Austria was also expanded under his aegis.

Eklund was accepted as an elected member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering ( Kungl. Ingenjörsvetenskapsakademien , abbreviated IVA) in 1953 . On October 14, 1968 he received the American Atoms for Peace Award together with Abdus Salam and Henry De Wolf Smyth .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Announcement on the presentation of the Atoms for Peace Award 1968 by the International Atomic Energy Agency , on iaea.org, viewed December 2, 2009 (English, iaea.org PDF; 49 kB)
  2. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.59 MB)
personal data
SURNAME Eklund, Sigvard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Eklund, Sigvard Arne (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish atomic energy scientist, second director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
DATE OF BIRTH June 19, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiruna , Sweden
DATE OF DEATH January 30, 2000
Place of death Vienna