Personal data:
| Born:May.16.1931 | |
| 1954 | Master of Engineering (Technical Physics) Royal Inst. of Technology (KTH) \ Stockholm |
| 1959 | Ph.D. in Physics, Uppsala University |
| 1964 | Organizer of the "Brookhaven Conference" on Atomic beams , Uppsala, Photo (by Upplandsmuseet) |
| 1966-96 | Professor in Physics, Chalmers University of Technology and Göteborg University |
| 1971-77 | Member of the Swedish Research Council for Natural Science (NFR) |
| 1975- | Member of the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences (KVA) |
| 1975-80 | Dean of the School of Physics and Math. (Teknisk fysik) at Chalmers |
| 1988-93 | Dean of faculty of Math. and Natural Sciences at Göteborg University |
| 1978-91 | Member (1989-91 chairman) of the Nobel Prize Committee for Physics |
| 1982 | Chairman of the VIII International Conference on Atomic Physics (ICAP), Göteborg, August 1982, Photo (by GP Foto) |
| 1992 | Coorganizer of the Nobel Symposium on QED Effects on Atomic Systems, Saltsjöbaden, Sweden, June 1992 |
| 1993 | Alexander von Humboldt Research Award |
| 1994-98 | Director of the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research in Science, Technology and Medicine |
| 1995- | Member of the Swedish Royal Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA) |
| 2000-2009 | Member of the CODATA Task Force Group on Fundamental Constants (NIST) |
| 1999 | Awarded the medal Illis quorum meruere labores by the Swedish Government.
Photo (by Marie Swartz, Banzai) |
| 2004 | Awarded the Chalmers medal |
| 2006 | Honorary member of the Science Faculty of Penn. State University |
