Hannes Alfvén

Hannes Olof Gösta Alfvén 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.

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Who was born first?

• Hannes Alfvén and Lev Landau were born the same year
• Hannes Alfvén and Victor Ambartsumian were born the same year
• Hannes Alfvén and Willard Libby were born the same year
• Hannes Alfvén and Willard Van Orman Quine were born the same year
• Hannes Alfvén and Odette Bancilhon were born the same year

Timeline

1. Hannes Alfvén (this page)May 30, 1908 – April 2, 1995
2. Lev LandauJanuary 9, 1908 – April 1, 1968
3. Odette BancilhonSeptember 22, 1908 – October 22, 1993
4. Victor AmbartsumianSeptember 5, 1908 – August 12, 1996
5. Willard LibbyDecember 17, 1908 – September 8, 1980
6. Willard Van Orman QuineJune 25, 1908 – December 25, 2000

Related

• Marie CurieNovember 7, 1867 – July 4, 1934
• Louis PasteurDecember 27, 1822 – September 28, 1895
• Carl Friedrich GaussApril 30, 1777 – February 23, 1855
• Dmitri MendeleevJanuary 27, 1834 – January 20, 1907
• Ernest RutherfordAugust 30, 1871 – October 19, 1937
• Erwin SchrödingerAugust 12, 1887 – January 4, 1961
• Wilhelm RöntgenMarch 27, 1845 – February 10, 1923
• Carl SaganNovember 9, 1934 – December 20, 1996