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Erik B Karlsson, born 23 June 1931 in Svanskog, Sweden is a Swedish physicist. After a Ph.D at Uppsala University, Sweden in 1962 he served as a lecturer in physics in the years 1963-1975 before he was appointed full professor at the same university in 1975. His field of research was nuclear magnetism and its applications and he spent the period 1977 -1980 at the particle physics laboratory CERN in Geneva, Switzerland, where he developed methods for the use of positive muons for studies of magnetism in condensed matter and for diffusion of light particles in metals [ ]. During the 1980’s the latter studies were complemented by investigation of hydrogen diffusion in thin metallic films using other nuclear methods. His interest in tunneling phenomena in solids [ ] led to studies of quantum entanglement and quantum decoherence based on experiments at Rutherford-Appleton Laboratory in UK [, ].

Erik B Karlsson was elected member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1982 and was during the period 1987-1996 member of its Nobel committee for physics, the last year as its chairman. In 1997 he hosted the Nobel symposium “Modern Studies of Basic Quantum Concepts and Phenomena” [ ] and wrote ”100 years of Nobel Prizes in Physics” in connection with the jubilee in 2001 [ ].