Hannes Alfvén
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| Gender | Male |
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| Death | 28 years ago |
| Date of birth | May 30,1908 |
| Zodiac sign | Gemini |
| Date of died | April 2,1995 |
| Died | Danderyd Municipality |
| Sweden | |
| Spouse | Kerstin Erikson |
| Children | Inger Alfvén |
| Gösta Alfvén | |
| Job | Physicist |
| Astronomer | |
| Electrical engineer | |
| Peace activist | |
| Books | Cosmical electrodynamics |
| Worlds-antiworlds; antimatter in cosmology | |
| Atom, man, and the universe | |
| Evolution of the solar system | |
| Living on the third planet | |
| The Great Computer: A Vision | |
| On the origin of the solar system | |
| Structure and Evolutionary History of the Solar System | |
| Cosmic plasma | |
| The Great Computer. A Vision. | |
| Awards | Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society |
| Franklin Medal | |
| Lomonosov Gold Medal | |
| William Bowie Medal | |
| Dirac Medal for the Advancement of Theoretical Physics | |
| Nobel Prize in Physics | |
| Education | Uppsala universitet |
| Born | Norrkoping |
| Sweden | |
| Parents | Anna-Clara Romanus-Alfvén |
| Johannes Alfvén | |
| Grandchildren | Johannes Albin Alfvén |
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| ID | 552012 |
Hannes Alfvén Life story
Hannes Olof Gösta Alfvén was a Swedish electrical engineer, plasma physicist and winner of the 1970 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on magnetohydrodynamics. He described the class of MHD waves now known as Alfvén waves.
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