Ernst Joseph Nordgren, born November 16, 1947 in Örebro, is a Swedish physicist.
Nordgren graduated as a B.Sc. from Uppsala University in 1971 och got his Ph.D. in physics in 1977.[1] In 1979 he was made docent and since 1988, he is a professor of soft X-ray physics at Uppsala. Since July 1, 2008, Nordgren is vice rector for the area of science and engineering at Uppsala university.[2]
Nordgren is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences since 1996, and was a member of the Nobel Committee for Physics from 2001 to 2009, and the Committee's chairman in 2008 and 2009.[3] He is also a member of the Royal Society of Sciences and Letters in Uppsala since 1981 and of the Royal Society of Sciences in Uppsala since 2005.