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Hannes Alfvén

1908 – 1995 · aged 87

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

Born
30 May 1908 · Norrköping Saint Olof parish
Died
2 Apr 1995 · Danderyd
Part ofSweden800 CE – todayAtheism460 BCE – today

Life timeline

Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.

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  1. 30 May 1908BornBorn in Norrköping Saint Olof parish
  2. 1946AwardBjörkén Prize
  3. 1947AwardThe KTH Great Prize
  4. 1950AwardPolhem Prize
  5. 1966AwardFellow of the American Geophysical Union
  6. 1967AwardGold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society
  7. 1970AwardNobel Prize in Physics
  8. 1971AwardFranklin Medal
  9. 1971AwardLomonosov Gold Medal
  10. 1979AwardDirac Medal for the Advancement of Physics
  11. 1980AwardForeign Member of the Royal Society
  12. 1985AwardHonorary doctor of Royal Institute of Technology
  13. 1988AwardWilliam Bowie Medal
  14. 2 Apr 1995DiedDied in Danderyd

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1908 – 1995).

  1. 1914 – 1918World War I
  2. 1915 – 1923Armenian genocide
  3. 1917Balfour Declaration
  4. 1917February Revolution
  5. 1917October Revolution
  6. 1917 – 1922Russian Civil War
  7. 1919 – 1920Paris Peace Conference
  8. 1920Treaty of Versailles
  9. 1933 – 1945The Holocaust
  10. 19341934 FIFA World Cup
  11. 19361936 Summer Olympics
  12. 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
  13. 19381938 FIFA World Cup
  14. 1938Munich Agreement
  15. 1939 – 1940Winter War
  16. 1939 – 1945World War II
  17. 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
  18. 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
  19. 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
  20. 1941Operation Barbarossa
  21. 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
  22. 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  23. 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
  24. 19501950 FIFA World Cup
  25. 1950 – 1953Korean War
  26. 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
  27. 19541954 FIFA World Cup
  28. 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
  29. 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
  30. 1956Suez Crisis
  31. 19581958 FIFA World Cup
  32. 1959Antarctic Treaty System
  33. 19621962 FIFA World Cup
  34. 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
  35. 19661966 FIFA World Cup
  36. 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
  37. 1968Prague Spring
  38. 1969Apollo 11 Moon landing
  39. 19721972 Summer Olympics
  40. 19741974 FIFA World Cup

Biography

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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