Died 1995-04-02.
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Hannes Alfvén
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. He was originally trained as an electrical power engineer and later moved to research and teaching in the fields of plasma physics and electrical engineering. Alfvén made…
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science · Swedish physicist and Nobel laureate (1908–1995) · physicist · astronomer · astrophysicist · university teacher · electrical engineer · science fiction writer · plasma physicist · also Hannes Alfvén, Hannes Olof Gösta Alfvén, Hannes Alfven, Olof Johannesson, Hannes Olof Gosta Alfvén, Alfvén
Born 30 May 1908 · Died 2 April 1995 · Q54945
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1995· 2 entries
Alfvén died on 2 April 1995 at Djursholm aged 86.
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1991· 1 entry
Alfvén retired as professor of electrical engineering at the University of California, San Diego and professor of plasma physics at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm
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1988· 1 entry
Won William Bowie Medal (1988).
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1980· 1 entry
Awarded Foreign Member of the Royal Society (1980).
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1979· 1 entry
Won Dirac Medal for the Advancement of Physics (1979).
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1971· 2 entries
Won Franklin Medal (1971).
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Won Lomonosov Gold Medal (1971).
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1970· 2 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics — for fundamental work and discoveries in magnetohydro-dynamics with fruitful applications in different parts of plasma physics.
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Physics (1970).
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1967· 3 entries
Won Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (1967).
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After leaving Sweden and spending time in the Soviet Union, he moved to the United States
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These currents now being known as Birkeland currents
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1966· 1 entry
Awarded Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (1966).
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1950· 1 entry
Awarded Polhem Prize (1950).
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1947· 1 entry
Awarded The KTH Great Prize (1947).
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1946· 1 entry
Awarded Björkén Prize (1946).
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1945· 1 entry
Acquired the nonappointive position of Chair of Electronics
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1940· 1 entry
Became professor of electromagnetic theory and electrical measurements at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm
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1939· 1 entry
Alfvén proposed the theory of magnetic storms and auroras and the theory of plasma dynamics in the Earth's magnetosphere
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1937· 1 entry
Alfvén argued that if plasma pervaded the universe, it could then carry electric currents capable of generating a galactic magnetic field
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1934· 2 entries
Studied at Uppsala University (1926–1934).
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Alfvén taught physics at both the University of Uppsala and the Nobel Institute for Physics (later renamed the Manne Siegbahn Institute of Physics) in Stockholm, Sweden
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1910· 1 entry
Alfvén was married for 67 years to his wife Kerstin (1910–1992).
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1908· 1 entry
Born 1908-05-30.
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