Gustaf dalen biography
Nils Gustaf Dalén was a Swedish engineer and industrialist who was the long-term CEO of the AGA company and inventor of the AGA cooker and the Dalén light.
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Gustaf Dalén
Swedish Nobel laureate and industrialist (1869–1937)
Nils Gustaf Dalén (Swedish:[ˈɡɵ̂sːtavdaˈleːn]ⓘ; 30 November 1869 – 9 December 1937) was a Swedish engineer and industrialist who was the long-term CEO of the AGA company and inventor of the AGA cooker and the Dalén light.
In 1912, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his "invention of automatic regulators for use in conjunction with gas accumulators for illuminating lighthouses and buoys".
Early years
Dalén was born in Stenstorp, a small village in Falköping Municipality, Västra Götaland County.[1] He managed the family farm, which he expanded to include a market garden, a seed merchants and a dairy.
Gustaf Dalén was a farmer's son from Stenstorp in western Sweden and is to date the only Swedish business leader who've been awarded a Nobel prize.In 1892 he invented a milk-fat tester to check milk quality of the milk delivered and went to Stockholm to show his new invention for Gustaf de Laval. de Laval was impressed by the self-taught Dalén and the invention and encouraged him to get a basic technical education.
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