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Key facts
- Born
- 9 May 1845, Orsa , Dalarna , Sweden
- Died
- 2 February 1913 (aged 67), Stockholm , Sweden
- Alma mater
- KTH Royal Institute of Technology Uppsala University
- Known for
- Steam turbines , dairy machinery, and the de Laval nozzle for rocket engines
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Gustav
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Sweden
- Place of death
- Oscar Parish
- Occupation
- mechanical engineer
- Educated at
- Royal Institute of Technology
- Languages spoken
- Swedish
- Field of work
- engineering
- Image
- GustafDeLaval.jpg
- Work location
- Stockholm
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- Commons category
- Gustaf de Laval
- date of birth
- 1845-05-09
- date of death
- 1913-02-02
- member of
- Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
- place of burial
- Norra begravningsplatsen
- Commons gallery
- Gustaf de Laval
- nominated for
- Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- date of burial or cremation
- 1915-06-01
- cause of death
- Colorectal cancer
- name
- de Laval i Stockholm
- manner of death
- natural causes
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Encyclopedic overview
Karl Gustaf Patrik de Laval ( Swedish pronunciation: [ˈɡɵ̂sːtav dɛ laˈvalː] ; 9 May 1845 – 2 February 1913) was a Swedish engineer and inventor who made important contributions to the design of steam turbines and centrifugal separation machinery for dairy.
Life
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Gustaf de Laval” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.