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Hannes Alfvén

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Also known as Hannes Olof Gösta Alfvén, Hannes Alfven, Olof Johannesson, Hannes Olof Gosta Alfvén

Swedish electrical engineer, plasma physicist and science fiction author (1908–1995), winner of the 1970 Nobel Prize for Physics

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Hannes Alfvén (1908–1995) was a Swedish male figure associated with classical music, described as a composer, conductor, and violinist. He was recognized in the Nobel Physics collection and the Nobel Laureates collection. His work is also referenced in the Royal Society and American Academy Arts Sciences collections.

Alfvén’s written works include *Interstellar clouds and the formation of stars*, *Investigations on the ultra-short electro-magnetic waves*, *Observations and hypotheses in cosmology*, *Hydromagnetics of the magnetosphere*, and *Worlds-antiworlds; antimatter in cosmology*. He is listed as the author of 15 works.

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Person · Open Library

Born
1908
Died
1995
Works
15

Top works

  • Interstellar clouds and the formation of stars
  • Investigations on the ultra-short electro-magnetic waves
  • Observations and hypotheses in cosmology
  • Hydromagnetics of the magnetosphere
  • Worlds-antiworlds; antimatter in cosmology

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
Sweden
Active from
1872-05-01
Active to
1960-05-08
classicalcomposerconductorswedish composerviolinist

Discography

DiscogsStream

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
10
Total plays
23

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2

    · 2019 · cited 20,908x

  2. A climbing image nudged elastic band method for finding saddle points and minimum energy paths

    · 2000 · cited 20,641x

  3. A fast and robust algorithm for Bader decomposition of charge density

    · 2006 · cited 10,237x

  4. Improved tangent estimate in the nudged elastic band method for finding minimum energy paths and saddle points

    · 2000 · cited 9,060x

  5. Room-Temperature Ultraviolet Nanowire Nanolasers

    · 2001 · cited 8,388x

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Quotes

  • “We should remember that there was once a discipline called natural philosophy. Unfortunately, this discipline seems not to exist today. It has been renamed science, but science of today is in danger of losing much of the natural philosophy aspect.”
  • “Scientists tend to resist interdisciplinary inquiries into their own territory. In many instances, such parochialism is founded on the fear that intrusion from other disciplines would compete unfairly for limited financial resources and thus diminish their own opportunity for research.”
  • “I have never thought that you could obtain the extremely clumpy, heterogeneous universe we have today, strongly affected by plasma processes, from the smooth, homogeneous one of the Big Bang, dominated by gravitation.”
  • “There is no rational reason to doubt that the universe has existed indefinitely, for an infinite time. It is only myth that attempts to say how the universe came to be, either four thousand or twenty billion years ago.”
  • “Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe ... every newspaper in the land has a section on astrology, yet few have anything at all on astronomy.”
  • “I have no trouble publishing in Soviet astrophysical journals, but my work is unacceptable to the American astrophysical journals.”

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Nobel Prize

  • The Nobel Prize in Physics1970

    “for fundamental work and discoveries in magnetohydro-dynamics with fruitful applications in different parts of plasma physics”

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Encyclopedic overview

Hannes Olof Gösta Alfvén ( Swedish: [alˈveːn]; 30 May 1908 – 2 April 1995) 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 many contributions to plasma physics, including theories describing the behavior of aurorae, the Van Allen radiation belts, the effect of magnetic storms on the Earth's magnetic field, the terrestrial magnetosphere, and the dynamics of plasmas in the Milky Way galaxy.

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