Bengt Edlén

Bengt Edlén (2 November 1906, Gusum – 10 February 1993, Lund) was a Swedish astronomer who specialized in spectroscopy. He was the first to identify the source of unknown spectral lines in the solar corona, which allowed for early calculations of the corona's temperature.

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