Hannes Alfvén
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Hannes Alfvén | |
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Born | Hannes Olof Gösta Alfvén 30 May 1908 Norrköping, Sweden |
Died | 2 April 1995 Djursholm, Sweden | (aged 86)
Alma mater | University of Uppsala |
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Fields | Electrical engineering and Plasma physics |
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Doctoral advisor | Manne Siegbahn Carl Wilhelm Oseen |
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Hannes Olof Gösta Alfvén (Swedish: [alˈveːn]; 30 May 1908 – 2 April 1995) was a Swedish electrical engineer and plasma physicist. He was the winner of the 1970 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on magnetohydrodynamics (MHD).[1]
References
[change | change source]- ↑ Walter Sullivan (April 5, 1995). Hannes Alfven, 86, Founder Of Field in Physics, Is Dead.
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