Sven Kullander (9 March 1936 – 28 January 2014) was a Swedish physicist. He was professor of High Energy Physics at
Uppsala University
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. Kullander received his doctorate from Uppsala University in 1971. He took part in experiments on measurements of
nuclear shell
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structure from
meson
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scattering
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carried out in
accelerators
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, on the structure of
Helium
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nuclei, and on
quark structure of matter by meson production. He also contributed to the development of accelerators.
Since 1990, Kullander had been a member of the
Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and since 2004, chairman of its Energy Committee.
References
1936 births
Swedish physicists
Members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
Academic staff of Uppsala University
2014 deaths
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