Relatives celebrated Angstrom – UNT

Many people may think first at the Ångström Laboratory located at Polacksbacken, while others remember the length of the device. In competition with other celebrities such as Carolus Linnaeus and Anders Celsius, it can be easy to forget Anders Ångström deed, divine son who was born 13 August 1814 in the lodge use in Medelpadsgatan.

– If you ask the people working at the Ångström is this enough to know quite a bit about what he really did, says Eric Stempels, astronomer at the Ångström Laboratory, which is one of those coordinating the 200th anniversary.

Anders Ångström work described as groundbreaking. With the so-called spektralanlaysen he laid including one of the foundations for the study of the sun.

During Wednesday’s solemn ceremony they were around 80 people who were there to learn more about the person.

In a eulogy told Vice Rector Anders Malmberg, Anders Angstrom came to Uppsala in 1833 where he later became professor of physics. Anders Malmberg drew connections between Ångström’s birthday and his work for a scientific consensus.

Angstrom was born namely the day before the Treaty of Kiel, which followed 200 years without Sweden recovering from war . Fittingly, Anders Angstrom of the view that the science is there to create a better world, explained Anders Malmberg.

Norrland nation’s first counselor Anna Jonsäll took over and told me about the dedicated Nations member. In 1839 was appointed Anders Angstrom as second counselor in the nation, and a few years later, 30 years young, he was elected an honorary member.

The location was also Jeanna Eklund, who along with her daughters Olga and Elsa Öhrn had taken from Stockholm to Uppsala to attend the ceremony for the one who is her grandmother’s grandfather.

– Mom, called Angstrom’s last name, talked a lot about him. But I still do not really know what he was doing. Unlike him, I am a humanist. But I hope there is someone here today who can explain more, says Jeanna Eklund.

She was mightily surprised, , but also proud, when she earlier morning surfed into Google home page and saw that the so-called doodle illustration imagined her relative.
Nor Matti Eklund had missed the tribute. He himself has followed her grandmother’s great-grandfather’s footsteps, in that he studies at Uppsala University.
In his own work, he has unfortunately not been able to use his relative’s theories.
– I am a Professor in theoretical philosophy, so we are moving in completely different areas. But I have struggled to understand what he has done, says Matti Eklund amused.