Bo Lennart Georg Siegbahn (1915–2008) was a Swedish

Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

 diplomat

Diplomat

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 and politician.

Bo Siegbahn was born in Lund

Lund

-Main sights:During the 12th and 13th centuries, when the town was the seat of the archbishop, many churches and monasteries were built. At its peak, Lund had 27 churches, but most of them were demolished as result of the Reformation in 1536. Several medieval buildings remain, including Lund...

 on 25 February 1915, as the older of two sons of the physicist Manne Siegbahn

Manne Siegbahn

Karl Manne Georg Siegbahn FRS was a Swedish physicist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1924 "for his discoveries and research in the field of X-ray spectroscopy"....

 and his wife, Karin (née Högbom). He grew up in Lund and in Uppsala

Uppsala

- Economy :Today Uppsala is well established in medical research and recognized for its leading position in biotechnology.*Abbott Medical Optics *GE Healthcare*Pfizer *Phadia, an offshoot of Pharmacia*Fresenius*Q-Med...

 from 1922, when his father was appointed to a professorship there. Manne Siegbahn received the Nobel Prize in Physics

Nobel Prize in Physics

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 in 1924, and Bo Siegbahn's younger brother Kai Siegbahn

Kai Siegbahn

Kai Manne Börje Siegbahn was a Swedish physicist.He was born in Lund, Sweden, and his father Manne Siegbahn also won the Nobel Prize in Physics, in 1924. Siegbahn earned his doctorate at the University of Stockholm in 1944...

 was awarded the same prize in 1981.

Siegbahn took B.A. and LL.B. degrees at Uppsala University

Uppsala University

Uppsala University is a research university in Uppsala, Sweden, and is the oldest university in Scandinavia, founded in 1477. It consistently ranks among the best universities in Northern Europe in international rankings and is generally considered one of the most prestigious institutions of...

 and entered a career in the Swedish Foreign Office during the years of World War II

World War II

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, serving as a junior diplomat at the Swedish embassies in both Vichy

Vichy

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 and Washington D.C. During the 1960s he served as Swedish ambassador in Morocco

Morocco

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 and Israel

Israel

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. Politically active as a Social Democrat

Swedish Social Democratic Party

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, he was a member of the First Chamber of the Swedish parliament 1957-1961, but later switched political allegiances and returned to the (now unicameral) Riksdag as a member representing the Moderate Party

Moderate Party

The Moderate Party is a centre-right, liberal conservative political party in Sweden. The party was founded in 1904 as the General Electoral League by a group of conservatives in the Swedish parliament...

(right wing party) 1974-1982.

Siegbahn was one of several people to be suspected as the author of a series of political satirical novels published under the pseudonym Bo Baldersson.

Bo Siegbahn's wife, Colette, died on 2 December 2007. He died a few weeks later, on 7 January 2008.

Source

• Birgitta Stanghed & Thorulf Arwidson, "Bo Siegbahn" (obituary), Svenska Dagbladet 5 February 2008.