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Dr. Sigvard Arne Eklund was a former director of the IAEA security council born in 1911 in Kiruna, Sweden. He obtained the degree of Master of Science in 1936 and of Doctor of Science in 1946. From 1937 to 1945 he was first Assistant and then Senior Scientist at the Nobel Institute of Physics, and from 1946 to 1950, Senior Scientist at the Research Institute for National Defence in Stockholm. He was Assistant Professor of Nuclear Physics at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm from 1946 to 1956. From 1950 to 1956, he was Director of Research at the then Swedish Atomic Energy Company (AB Atomenergi, Stockholm). Before his appointment as Director General of the IAEA in 1961, Dr. Eklund was Deputy to the Managing Director of AB Atomenergi from 1950, and also Director of the Reactor Development Division at AB Atomenergi from 1957. In 1957 he was Secretary General for the Second International United Nations Conference on the Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy. Image File history File links Information_icon. ... IAEA The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), established as an autonomous organization on July 29, 1957, seeks to promote the peaceful use of nuclear energy and to inhibit its use for military purposes. ... 1911 (MCMXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (click on link for calendar). ...   (IPA: ; UN/LOCODE: SE STO) is the capital of Sweden, and consequently the site of its Government and Parliament as well as the residence of the Swedish head of state, King Carl XVI Gustaf. ... The Royal Institute of Technology or Kungliga tekniska högskolan (KTH) is a university in Stockholm, Sweden. ...

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• http://www.iaea.org/About/DGC/memoriam_eklund.html