Bengt Edlén
Bengt Edlén (November 2, 1906, Gusum – February 10, 1993, Lund) was a Swedish professor of physics and astronomer who specialized in spectroscopy. He participated in solving the Corona Mystery: unidentified spectral lines in the sun's spectrum were speculatively believed to originate from a hitherto unidentified chemical element termed coronium. Edlén later showed that those lines are from multiply ionized iron (Fe-XIV). His discovery was not immediately accepted, since the alleged ionization required a temperature of millions of degrees. Later such solar corona temperatures were verified.
He also made an important contribution in analyzing spectra of Wolf-Rayet stars.[1][2]
Edlén was professor at Lund University from 1944 to 1973. He was elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1947. He graduated from high school in Norrköping in 1926 and entered the University of Uppsala, eventually graduating with a PhD in 1934.[3]
Bengt Edlén received the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society 1945 for the solution of the Corona Mystery,[4] the Howard N. Potts Medal in 1946 for researches in the extreme ultraviolet,[5] and the Henry Draper Medal of the National Academy of Sciences[6] in 1968.
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