Tord Johan Carl Ekelöf (born 12 September 1945 in

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, Sweden) is a Swedish professor of

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Biography

Ekelöf is the son of Per Olof Ekelöf and Marianne (Hesser) Ekelöf. He graduated in 1964 from the Cathedral School in Uppsala. Ekelöf became a bachelor of philosophy in 1966, a master's engineer in 1968 and obtained his PhD in 1972, all at Uppsala University. Having obtained his

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, under the supervision of

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, Ekelöf spent several years at the

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(CERN) in Geneva; first as research fellow from 1972 to 1975, then as a research associate from 1977 to 1979 and finally as a staff physicist from 1979 to 1983. In the years 1983 to 1988, Ekelöf moved on to a position as researcher financed by the

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before he again became affiliated to CERN as a research associate from 1988 to 1990. In 1990 he became a senior lecturer at Uppsala University and eventually full professor in 1998. Throughout his career, Ekelöf has been active in experiments at the particle physics laboratory

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, Switzerland. He has participated in many different collaborations, including

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and

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, and authored a large number of scientific articles. Ekelöf has contributed towards the establishment of the

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. In 2009, he was awarded the Björkénska Prize, a prestigious scientific award from Uppsala University.

References

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