I was born in Stockholm on the 9th of October, 1938. Studied philosophy, mathematics and physics at Stockholm University.
In 1968 I took my doctor's degree at Stockholm University in elementary particle physics.
After that I devoted myself to light and colour, not only from a physical but also from a perceptual, phenomenological, aesthetical as well as a philosohical point of view. Of course, in that connection I run into Goethe's Theory of Colour and his criticism against the Newtonian theory of colour. I edited and commented a Swedish edition of his "Entwurf einer Farbenlehre" (1976) and after that I have been extensively lecturing on colour -- much inspired by Goethe's view -- as well as written a number of articles and books on colour theory (in Swedish).
My research work, starting with computational theories for colour vision, as in the report "Colour and Physics" (1973), has since mainly dealt with the assessment of colour rendering properties of artificial light sources, in collaboration with groups at Fysisk institutt in Oslo and at the School of Architecture, KTH, Stockholm; where I was associate professor in 1981/82.
During the years 1983-92 I was associated with the Swedish Committee for Future Oriented Research (SALFO), taking parts in organizing international conferences, such as:
"An Inventory of Present Thinking about Parts & Wholes" (1983)
"Structure and Evolution of Systems" (1984)
During the years 1983-90 I made a study of the use of symbolic notation systems within various disciplines -- mathematics, physics, chemistry, technology, cartography, music, dance, architecture. It was published (in Swedish) with the title "Tecken att tänka med" (1991)
I have since long been fascinated by Martin Buber's philosophy of dialogue, so meanwhile I have put my efforts into translating a selection of his writings into Swedish.
A similar, quite demanding work, for me as physicist, was the translation into Swedish of Hans-Georg Gadamer's "Aktualität des Schönen -- Kunst als Spiel, Symbol und Fest". It gave me new perspectives on human culture.
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J.W.Goethe's Approach to Colour in Art. In K.Almqvist and L.Belfrage (eds.) "Hilma af Klint. The Art of Seeing the Invisible." Stockholm 2015
A Color Coding Method for Radiographic Images (together with Xie-Qi Shi and Ulf Welander, Oral radiologi, KI) Image and Vision Computing 20 (2002) 761-767
A Study of Boundary Colours Fusing into Grey (together with T.Holtsmark, Oslo) i: Synergie, Syntropie, Nichtlineare Systeme, Heft 6, Leipzig 2000.
A Computer Program for Visualising the Relation Between Colour and Spectral Energy Distribution, USIP Report 99-05, Oct. 1999
Using a Personal Computer as a Visual Colorimeter. USIP Report 98-09, Dec. 1998
Colour Rendering and the Three-Band Fluorescent Lamp. CIE 19th Session. Kyoto 1979. Proceedings, p 218-23 (1980)
Deuteranomalous Colour Vision from the Standpoint of Colorimetry.USIP Report 78-11, June 1978
Colour and Physics - physical aspects of human colour vision, USIP Report 73-09, Maj 1973
On the Holistic Character of Physical Concepts - in "An Inventory of Present Thinking about Parts & Wholes", del II, sid 65 FRN 1983
The Possibility of the Impossible; in Cybernetics and Human Knowing vol. 1 (1991)
The Essence of Dialogue, i Göranzon and Florin (Eds.) Dialogue and Technology: Art and Knowledge, Springer Verlag, Hedieberg 1991
How Formalized Systems Facilitate Invention, i Gustafsson, Howard, Niklasson (red.) "The Creative Process." Utbildningsdepartementet, Stockholm 1993
Formal Languages and Artistic Media, i Gustafsson and Gerholm (red.) Art and Technology, IVA, Stockholm 1998
Pion-electron Scattering at 16 GeV/c (with J.Allan och G.Ekspong). II Nuovo Cimento 32, 1144(1964)
Kp elastic Scattering at 3.0 GeV/c (with G.Otter) Il Nuovo Cimento 43, 142 (1966)
The Reaction Kp->KNn in All Three Final Charge States, at 3 GeV/c (with G.Otter och G.Ekspong) Il Nuovo Cimento 49, 348 (1967)
The Reaction Kp->KNn at 3 GeV/c (with G.Blomqvist). Arkiv för fysik 37, 463 (1968)
BOOKS (in Swedish)
Tecken att tänka med (1991),
Goethe och
naturvetenskapen (1993),
Goethes färglära (1996),
Färglära på datorn (1998),
Sinnena ljuger inte (1999),
Samtal om
färgseendets gåta (2001)
© Pehr Sällström. September 2021