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Carl Ekdahl

American electrical engineer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 10, 2026
Entity authorityQ29452918 ↗
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Carl August Ekdahl Jr. (May 2, 1936 – June 25, 2026) was an American electrical engineer from the Los Alamos National Laboratory. He was named Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2015 for contributions to high-power accelerator development and the generation and transport of electron beams for flash-radiography.

Ekdahl died on June 25, 2026, at the age of 90.

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This entry incorporates text from “Carl Ekdahl” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.