Hannes Alfvén
Science
Featured Today
Lit.West
Arthur Rimbaud Lit.West
Richard Owen Science
Bertrand Russell Science
Léon Teisserenc de Bort Science
Hannes Alfvén Science
a Swedish electrical engineer, plasma physicist and winner of the 1970 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on magnetohydrodynamics
For much more information, also see
Born
Hannes Olof Gösta Alfvén 30 May 1908 Norrköping, Sweden
Died
2 April 1995 (aged 86) Djursholm, Sweden
Known for
Magnetohydrodynamics Critical ionization velocity Double layer Alfvén wave Alfvén–Klein model Alfvén's theorem
Fields
Electrical engineering and Plasma physics
Alma mater
University of Uppsala
Awards
Björkénska priset (1946) Nobel Prize in Physics (1970) Lomonosov Gold Medal (1971) Dirac Medal (1979) ForMemRS (1980) William Bowie Medal (1988)
Institutions
University of Uppsala Royal Institute of Technology University of California, San Diego University of Maryland, College Park University of Southern California
adultbasic
Sweden
Doctoral advisor
Manne Siegbahn Carl Wilhelm Oseen
Doctoral students
Carl-Gunne Fälthammar
era
1800+