text: Siegbahn was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1924. He won the Hughes Medal 1934 and Rumford Medal 1940. In 1944, he patented the Siegbahn pump. Siegbahn was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society in 1954.
  There is a street, Route Siegbahn, named after Siegbahn at CERN, on the Prévessin site in France.