Bo Lennart Georg Siegbahn (1915–2008) was a Swedish diplomat and politician. Bo Siegbahn was born in Lund on 25 February 1915, as the older of two sons of the physicist

Manne Siegbahn Karl Manne Georg Siegbahn FRS(For) HFRSE (3 December 1886 – 26 September 1978) 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". Biography Siegbahn ...

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

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

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in 1924, and Bo Siegbahn's younger brother

Kai Siegbahn Kai Manne Börje Siegbahn (20 April 1918 – 20 July 2007) was a Swedish physicist who was awarded the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physics. Biography Siegbahn was born in Lund, Sweden, son of Manne Siegbahn the 1924 physics Nobel Prize winner. Siegb ...

was awarded the same prize in 1981. Siegbahn took B.A. and LL.B. degrees at

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and entered a career in the Swedish Foreign Office during the years of World War II, serving as a junior diplomat at the Swedish embassies in both

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and Washington, D.C. During the 1960s he served as Swedish ambassador in Morocco, also Senegal, and Israel. Politically active as a

Social Democrat Social democracy is a political, social, and economic philosophy within socialism that supports political and economic democracy. As a policy regime, it is described by academics as advocating economic and social interventions to promote soc ...

, 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 liberal-conservative (centre-right)

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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.

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*Birgitta Stanghed & Thorulf Arwidson, "Bo Siegbahn" (obituary), Svenska Dagbladet 5 February 2008. {{DEFAULTSORT:Siegbahn, Bo 1915 births 2008 deaths Uppsala University alumni Members of the Riksdag from the Social Democrats Moderate Party politicians Ambassadors of Sweden to Morocco Ambassadors of Sweden to Senegal Ambassadors of Sweden to Israel Members of the Första kammaren