Bo Siegbahn

Bo Lennart Georg Siegbahn (25 February 1915 – 7 January 2008) was a Swedish diplomat and politician who served in the Swedish Riksdag from 1957 to 1961. He grew up in Lund and in Uppsala from 1922, when his father was appointed to a professorship there. Manne Siegbahn received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1924, and Bo Siegbahn's younger brother Kai Siegbahn was awarded the same prize in 1981.

Siegbahn passed studentexamen in Stockholm in 1933 and received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Uppsala University in 1934 and a Candidate of Law degree from Uppsala University in 1937.

Political career Politically active as a Social Democrat, he was a member of the Första kammaren of the Swedish Riksdag from 1957 to 1961, but later switched political allegiances and returned to the (now unicameral) Riksdag as a member representing the liberal-conservative (centre-right) Moderate Party from 1974 to 1982.

Siegbahn wrote articles in newspapers and journals such as Tiden, Svensk utrikeshandel, Svensk handel, Ekonomisk revy, Industria, Svensk sparbankstidskrift, Var, när och hur, Utrikespolitik.

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

Personal life In 1943, Siegbahn married Colette Renard (1916–2008), the daughter of Louis Renard and Marguerite Marchal. They had three children: Sten (born 1943), Jan (born 1945), and Mireille (born 1950). They were residents of Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France.

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

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