biography
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Alfvén, Hannes (Olof Gösta)
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pronunciation:
[alfen]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1908–95)
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| biography:
| Theoretical physicist, born in Norrköping, SE Sweden. He studied at Uppsala, and joined the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, in 1940, moving to the University of California in 1967. He did pioneering work on plasmas and their behaviour in magnetic and electric fields. In 1942 he predicted the existence of waves in plasmas (Alfvén waves), which were later observed. He shared the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1970. |
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