Ernst Joseph Nordgren, born 16 November 1947 in Örebro, is a Swedish physicist.
Nordgren graduated as a B.Sc. from Uppsala University in 1971 and received his Ph.D. in physics in 1977.Nordgren, Joseph (1977): X-ray emission spectra of free molecules. Abstracts of Uppsala dissertations from the Faculty of Science, 0345-0058; 418, In 1979 he was made docent, and since 1988 he has been a professor of soft X-ray physics at Uppsala. Since 1 July 2008 Nordgren has been vice rector for science and engineering at Uppsala University.
Nordgren became a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1996. He was a member of the Nobel Committee for Physics from 2001 to 2009, and the Committee's chairman in 2008 and 2009.Joseph Nordgren's web page , accessed on August 4, 2009 He has also been a member of the Royal Society of Sciences and Letters in Uppsala since 1981 and of the Royal Society of Sciences in Uppsala since 2005.
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External links Joseph Nordgren's web page at Uppsala University