Hannes Alfvén

Hannes Alfvén
Alfvén in 1942
Born	Hannes Olof Gösta Alfvén (1908-05-30)30 May 1908 Norrköping, Sweden
Died	2 April 1995(1995-04-02) (aged 86) Djursholm, Sweden
Alma mater	University of Uppsala
Known for	Magnetohydrodynamics Critical ionization velocity Double layer Alfvén wave Alfvén–Klein model Alfvén's theorem
Awards	Björkénska priset (1946) Nobel Prize in Physics (1970) Lomonosov Gold Medal (1971) Dirac Medal (1979) ForMemRS (1980) William Bowie Medal (1988)
Scientific career
Fields	Electrical engineering and Plasma physics
Institutions	University of Uppsala Royal Institute of Technology University of California, San Diego University of Maryland, College Park University of Southern California
Doctoral advisor	Manne Siegbahn Carl Wilhelm Oseen
Doctoral students	Carl-Gunne Fälthammar

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).