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Hannes Alfvén

Scientist · born May 30, 1908 · died 1995

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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 (MHD). He described the class of MHD waves now known as Alfvén waves.

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  1. ~59Received the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society1967
  2. ~62Received the Nobel Prize in Physics1970
  3. ~63Received the Lomonosov Gold Medal1971

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