Bengt Edlén, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Bengt Edlén

Swedish astronomer

Date of Birth: 02-Nov-1906

Place of Birth: Gusum, Östergötland County, Sweden

Date of Death: 10-Feb-1993

Profession: astronomer, physicist, astrophysicist, university teacher

Nationality: Sweden

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Bengt Edlén (2 November 1906, Gusum – 10 February 1993, Lund) was a Swedish professor of physics and astronomer who specialized in spectroscopy.
He was the first who identified the unknown coronal spectral lines in the Corona, which was used to calculate the temperature of the corona.