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Chapters: Svante Arrhenius, Pär Lagerkvist, Verner Von Heidenstam, Alva Myrdal, Gustaf Dalén, Hannes Alfvén, Dag Hammarskjöld, Selma Lagerlöf, Gunnar Myrdal, Torsten Wiesel, Bertil Ohlin, Nelly Sachs, Ulf Von Euler, Hjalmar Branting, Ragnar Granit, Harry Martinson, Arvid Carlsson, Arne Tiselius, Hugo Theorell, Eyvind Johnson, Erik Axel Karlfeldt, Manne Siegbahn, Bengt I. Samuelsson, Kai Siegbahn, Nathan Söderblom, Hans Von Euler-Chelpin, Sune Bergström, Allvar Gullstrand, Theodor Svedberg, Klas Pontus Arnoldson. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 130. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld (·)) (29 July 1905 18 September 1961) was a Swedish diplomat, economist and author and was the second Secretary-General of the United Nations. He served from April 1953 until his death in a plane crash in September 1961. He is the only person to have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize posthumously. Hammarskjöld remains the only U.N. Secretary-General to die in office. U.S. President John F. Kennedy called Hammarskjöld the greatest statesman of our century. Dag Hammarskjöld was born in Jönköping, Sweden, but he lived most of his childhood in Uppsala. He was the fourth and youngest son of Hjalmar Hammarskjöld, prime minister of Sweden from 1914 to 1917, and Agnes Hammarskjöld (née Almquist). His ancestors had served the Swedish Crown since the 17th century. He studied first at Katedralskolan and then at Uppsala University where he graduated with a Master's degree in Political Economy and a Bachelor of Law degree. He then moved to Stockholm. From 1930 to 1934, he was a secretary of a governmental committee on unemployment. He also wrote his economics thesis, Konjunkturspridningen (The Spread of the Business Cycle), and received his doctorate from Stockholm University in 19...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=236428 ... Read more

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This digital document, covering the life and work of Alva Reimer Myrdal, is an entry from Contemporary Authors, a reference volume published by Thompson Gale. The length of the entry is 2086 words. The page length listed above is based on a typical 300-word page. Although the exact content of each entry from this volume can vary, typical entries include the following information:

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Title: Alva Myrdal: A Daughter's Memoir. (book review)
Author: Adma d'Heurle
Publication: Scandinavian Studies (Refereed)
Date: January 1, 1993
Publisher: Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study
Volume: v65Issue: n1Page: p134(5)

Article Type: Book Review

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