Hannes Alfvén - Nobel Prize in Physics — 1970
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Hannes Alfvén

Prize
Nobel Prize in Physics — 1970
for fundamental work and discoveries in magnetohydro-dynamics with fruitful applications in different parts of plasma physics
Together with: Louis Néel
Citizenship
SwedenSweden
Languages
English, Swedish
date of birth
5/30/1908
place of birth
Norrköping Saint Olof parish
date of death
4/2/1995
place of death
Danderyd
Lived
86 years

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occupation
  • astronomer
  • electrical engineer
  • plasma physicist
  • university teacher
  • physicist
  • science fiction writer
  • astrophysicist
field of work
  • physics
educated at
  • Uppsala University
    • start time: 1926
    • end time: 1934
employer
  • Uppsala University
    • start time: 1934
    • end time: 1938
  • University of California, San Diego
    • start time: 1967
    • end time: 1988
  • Royal Institute of Technology
    • start time: 1940
    • end time: 1967
member of
  • Royal Society of London
    • start time: 1980
  • Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
  • Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 1947
  • Indian National Science Academy
  • Academy of Sciences of the USSR
  • National Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 1966
  • Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences
    • start time: 1947
    • end time: 1980
  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • American Philosophical Society
    • start time: 1971
  • Russian Academy of Sciences
notable work
  • The Great Computer. A Vision
  • The End of Man?
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