RARE \"Atomic Energy Pioneer\" Dr Sigvard Eklund Hand Signed 3X5 Card
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RARE \"Atomic Energy Pioneer\" Dr Sigvard Eklund Hand Signed 3X5 Card:
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Up for sale a RARE! "Atomic Energy Agency" Sigvard Eklund Hand Signed 3X5 Card.
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Sigvard
Arne Eklund (19 June 1911 –
30 January 2000) was Director General of the International Atomic
Energy Agency from 1961 to 1981. Eklund was born in Kiruna, Norrbotten County, Sweden, the son of train driver Severin
Eklund and his wife Vilhelmina (née Pettersson). Eklund obtained his Master of Science degree in
1936, a Licentiate of Philosophy (fil.lic.) degree in 1941 and a Doctor of
Philosophy (fil.dr.) degree from Uppsala University in
1946. He was Docent in nuclear physics at the Royal Institute of
Technology and an employee of the Royal Swedish Academy of
Sciences Institute of Physics (Vetenskapsakademiens forskningsinstitut för
fysik) from 1937 to 1945. Eklund was an associate professor
("laborator") at the Swedish
National Defence Research Institute (FOA) from 1945 to 1950 and
became director of research at the Swedish Atomic Energy Company (AB
Atomenergi, Stockholm) in 1950. He became technical director there
in 1957[1] and led the effort to build Sweden's first
research reactor, R1. In
1957, he was Secretary General for the Second International United Nations
Conference on the Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy. He was appointed as Director
General of the International Atomic
Energy Agency in 1961. Eklund was reappointed four more times
in 1965, 1969, 1974 and 1977, holding the post for twenty consecutive years
until he retired and was named Director General Emeritus. Eklund
became a member of the Swedish National Commission for Physics (Svenska
nationalkommissionen för fysik) in 1947 and a member of the Royal
Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences in 1953. He became an honorary doctor in Graz in
1968, in Kraków 1971 and in Bucharest in 1971. Eklund became a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of
Sciences in 1972 and honorary doctor of technology at Chalmers University of
Technology in 1974 and at the Columbia University in
1977. He became an honorary doctor in Moscow in 1977 and in Buenos Aires in 1977. Eklund became an honorary
doctor of technology in Budapest in 1977, an honorary senator
at the University of Vienna in
1977, an honorary doctor of technology in Dresden in 1978, at the Yonsei University in Seoul in
1978, at the National Agrarian
University in Peru in 1979 and at the Royal
Institute of Technology in Stockholm in 1980. Eklund became a member of
the National Academy of
Engineering in United States in 1979.
He received the American Atoms for Peace Award in
1968.
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