Gustaf Dalén, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Gustaf Dalén

Swedish Nobel Laureate and industrialist

Date of Birth: 30-Nov-1869

Place of Birth: Stenstorp, Västra Götaland County, Sweden

Date of Death: 09-Dec-1937

Profession: engineer, entrepreneur, physicist, inventor, business executive

Nationality: Sweden

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Nils Gustaf Dalén (Swedish pronunciation: [?g?s?tav da'le?n] (listen); 30 November 1869 – 9 December 1937) was a Swedish Nobel Laureate and industrialist, engineer, inventor and 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".