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Interview about the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics
Ernst Joseph Nordgren, born November 16, 1947 in Örebro, is a Swedish physicist.
Nordgren graduated as a B.Sc. from Uppsala University in 1971 and received his Ph.D. in physics in 1977. In 1979 he was made docent and since 1988, he is a professor of soft X-ray physics at Uppsala. Since July 1, 2008, Nordgren is vice rector for the area of science and engineering at Uppsala university.
Nordgren is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences since 1996, and was a member of the Nobel Committee for Physics from 2001 to 2009, and the Committee's chairman in 2008 and 2009. He is also a member of the Royal Society of Sciences and Letters in Uppsala since 1981 and of the Royal Society of Sciences in Uppsala since 2005.
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