AKA Hannes Olof Gösta Alfvén

Born: 30-May-1908
Birthplace: Norrköping, Sweden
Died: 2-Apr-1995
Location of death: Djursholm, Sweden
Cause of death: unspecified

Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Physicist

Nationality: Sweden
Executive summary: Plasma physicist

Father: Johannes Alfvén (physician)
Mother: Anna-Clara Romanus (physician)
Wife: Kerstin Maria Erikson (m. 1935)
Daughter: Cecilia
Daughter: Inger
Daughter: Gösta
Son: Reidun
Daughter: Berenike

    University: PhD, University of Uppsala (1934)
    Scholar: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm (1940-)
    Professor: University of California at San Diego (1967-)

    Nobel Prize for Physics 1970 (with Louis Néel)
    Royal Astronomical Society Gold Medal 1967 (with Allan Sandage)

Author of books:
Cosmical Electrodynamics (1950)
On the Origin of the Solar System (1954)
Worlds-Antiworlds (1966)
Cosmic Plasma (1981)

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