Hannes Alfven
Hannes Alfven
Hannes Olof Gösta Alfvénwas a Swedish electrical engineer, plasma physicist and winner of the 1970 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on magnetohydrodynamics. 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 many contributions to plasma physics, including theories describing the behavior of aurorae, the Van Allen radiation belts,...
NationalitySwedish
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth30 May 1908
CountrySweden