Editing Peter Nilson

{{Short description|Swedish astronomer and novelist}}
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{{Infobox writer|birth_date=17 October 1937|birth_place=[[Näsby]], Sweden|death_date=8 March 1998|occupation=[[astronomer]] and novelist|genre=scientific essays<br/>[[science fiction]]|alma_mater=[[Uppsala University]]|notable_works=''Rymdväktaren''}}
'''Peter Nilson''' (17 October 1937 – 8 March 1998) was a Swedish [[astronomer]] and novelist.  Active at [[Uppsala University]], he compiled a catalogue of [[galaxy|galaxies]] containing nearly 13,000 entries.<ref>Claus Madsen, ''The Jewel on the Mountaintop: The European Southern Observatory through Fifty Years'' (2013), p. 82.</ref> He was appreciated for a number of essay books (primarily about science) and for a number of [[science fiction]] novels like ''Rymdväktaren'', or "The Space Guardian" and ''Nyaga''.

He was born in the [[Småland]]ian village of [[Näsby]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://runeberg.org/authors/nilsonpe.html|title=Peter Nilson|publisher=Projekt Runeberg|language=English|access-date=2 January 2022}}</ref> and under the early teens a farmer, but science, with its celebrities such as [[Charles Darwin]] and [[Albert Einstein]] made such an impression on him, as to motivate him to accomplish college studies by letter correspondence. In the early 1960s he began his studies in [[Uppsala University]], initially in [[mathematics]], and thereafter [[theoretical physics]], [[aesthetics]], [[history of ideas]] and [[astronomy]].

He was elected a member of the [[Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences]] in 1993.

==Works==
*''Lysande stjärnor'' (1970)
*''Uppsala General Catalogue of Galaxies'' (1973)
*''Upptäckten av universum'' (1975)
*''Himlavalvets sällsamheter'' (1977)
*''Trollkarlen'' (1979)
*''Främmande världar'' (1980)
*''[[Arken (novel)|Arken]]'' (1982)
*''Mitt i labyrinten'' (1983)
*''[[Guldspiken]]'' (1985)
*''Avgrundsbok'' (1987)
*''Äventyret'' (1989)
*''Messias med träbenet'' (1990)
*''Stjärnvägar'' (1991)
*''Rymdljus'' (1992)
*''Solvindar'' (1993)
*''Hem till jorden'' (1994)
*''[[Rymdväktaren]]'' (1995)
*''[[Nyaga (novel)|Nyaga]]'' (1996)
*''Den gamla byn'' (1997). Illustrated by [[Björn Gidstam]]
*''Ljuden från kosmos'' (2000, [[posthum]])

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