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	Hannes Olof Gosta Alfven
		Alfven was educated at Uppsala University and in 1940 joined the staff of the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm.
		In 1939 Alfven published his theory of magnetic storms and auroral displays in the atmosphere, which immensely influenced the modern theory of the magnetosphere (the region of the Earth's magnetic field).
		Alfven was an early supporter of "plasma cosmology," a concept that challenges the big-bang model of the origin of the universe.
	physics.nobel.brainparad.com /hannes_olof_gosta_alfven.html (362 words)

	HANNES ALFVEN Hannes Alfven
		Hannes Alfven, winner of the 1970 Nobel Prize in Physics,acknowledged as one of creative and intuitive intellect's of the 20th century, died peacefully Sunday evening, April 2, 1995 in Stockholm, Sweden.
		Alfven was the first to predict (in 1963) the large scale filamentary structure of the universe, a discovery that confounded astrophysicists in 1991 and added to the woes of Big Bang cosmology.
		Hannes Alfven has played a central role in the development of several modern fields of physics, including plasma physics, the physics of charged particle beams, and interplanetary and magnetospheric physics.
	www.tmgnow.com /repository/cosmology/alfven.html (3174 words)

	KTH - EE - Alfvén Laboratory :: front page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		It criticized earlier speculations concerning cosmic radiation because they did not "seem to be in accordance with the latest experimental results", and he stated that it should be possible to "explain the origin of the cosmic rays, introducing no new hypotheses, and only applying the kinetic gas theory to the conditions of world space".
		This was typical of the spirit of Hannes Alfvén; when the Bowie Medal was bestowed upon him, he responded by giving the Alpha-Centauri Medal to the AGU for safekeeping and eventual placement.
		Hannes Alfvén, with his wife Kerstin, also took an active interest in important matters outside science, especially those related to environment, population growth, and disarmament.
	www.alfvenlab.kth.se /hannes.html (2200 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Hannes Alfvén
		Hannes Olof Gösta Alfvén (May 30, 1908; Norrköping, Sweden - April 2, 1995; Djursholm, Sweden) was a Swedish electrical power engineer.
		Hannes Alfvén was married for 67 years to Kirsten.
		Hannes Alfven Papers (http://orpheus.ucsd.edu/speccoll/testing/html/mss0225a.html) (1945 - 1991) in the Mandeville Special Collections Library.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Hannes-Alfv%C3%A9n (3145 words)

	EGU - Hannes Alfvén
		One of Hannes Alfvén's most daring ideas was the concept of a critical velocity in plasma neutral-gas interaction, which was met with disbelief but later observed both in the laboratory and in space.
		In 1970 Hannes Alfvén was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics for "his contributions and fundamental discoveries in magnetohydrodynamics and their fruitful applications in different areas of plasma physics".
		Hannes Alfvén has contributed to the progress of science not only by his own work but also by the extraordinary inspiration that he has given to his many students as well as to colleagues all over the world.
	www.copernicus.org /EGU/awards/hannes_alfven.html (1072 words)

	RECENT HISTORY OF COSMOLOGICAL THEORIES - 2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		ALFVEN'S AMBIPLASMA HYPOTHESIS (1965)—In 1950 *O. Klein, a Stockholm physics teacher, came up with a new idea in an attempt to solve all the problems of the earlier theories.
		Hannes Alfven* of Sweden revised it in 1965.
		Alfven admits that there are "serious difficulties" concerning the mechanism of stellar and galactic formation.
	www.pathlights.com /ce_encyclopedia/02-star9.htm (2216 words)

	Register of Hannes Alfven Papers - MSS 0225
		Hannes Alfven pioneered the development of MHD, the study of the motion of an electrically conducting fluid interacting with magnetic fields, and, in particular, the subject of plasma physics, the branch of MHD in which the fluid under study is a highly ionized gas consisting of nearly equal numbers of positively and negatively charged particles.
		Alfven was chiefly concerned with plasmas in stars, in the geomagnetic field, and in interplanetary and interstellar space, but his theories were basic to the study of laboratory plasmas encountered in the development of controlled thermonucelar fusion.
		Alfven pioneered theoretical research in the field of magnetohydrodynamics, the study of the interaction of conducting fluids and magnetic fields, for which he received the 1970 Nobel Prize in physics with Louis Neel.
	orpheus.ucsd.edu /speccoll/testing/html/mss0225a.html (3494 words)

	Hannes Alfvén - Biography
		Hannes Olof Gösta Alfvén was born in Norrköping, Sweden, in 1908.
		Hannes Alfvén studied at Uppsala University from 1926, he obtained the degree of doctor of philosophy in 1934, in this same year he was appointed lecturer in physics at Uppsala University.
		In 1937 he became research physicist at the Nobel Institute for Physics in Stockholm, in 1940 he was appointed Professor in the Theory of Electricity at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Professor of Electronics in 1945, and Professor of Plasma Physics in 1963.
	nobelprize.org /nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1970/alfven-bio.html (216 words)

	In Memory of Hannes Alfven
		Shortly before this book went to print, we learned the sad news of the death of the Swedish Novel Prize winning physicist Hannes Alfvén.
		Hannes Alfvén was one of the outstanding minds of the twentieth century and will, one day, be ranked with Einstein as one who changed our view of the universe.
		It was a great privilege to have known him.
	www.marxist.com /science/inmemory.html (1302 words)

	CASE Newsletter no. 1
		In 1970 Hannes Alfvén was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics for 'his contributions and fundamental discoveries in magnetohydrodynamics and their fruitful applications in different areas of plasma physics' (i).
		Hannes Alfvén was born on 30 May 1908 in the town Norrköping in the middle of Sweden.
		Hannes Alfvén realized that the magnetic fields observed in sunspots must derive from electric currents in the solar plasma, and that the currents and the magnetic fields together must give rise to forces that affect the motion of this plasma, which in turn induces electric fields.
	www.bath.ac.uk /ncuacs/casenl1.htm (2050 words)

	Hannes Alfvén - Biography
		Hannes Olof Gösta Alfvén was born in Norrköping, Sweden, in 1908.
		Hannes Alfvén studied at Uppsala University from 1926, he obtained the degree of doctor of philosophy in 1934, in this same year he was appointed lecturer in physics at Uppsala University.
		In 1937 he became research physicist at the Nobel Institute for Physics in Stockholm, in 1940 he was appointed Professor in the Theory of Electricity at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Professor of Electronics in 1945, and Professor of Plasma Physics in 1963.
	www.angelfire.com /wi3/sax/zaz/alfven.html (229 words)

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		Hannes Alfvén, winner of the 1970 Nobel Prize in Physics,acknowledged as one of creative and intuitive intellect's of the 20th century, died peacefully Sunday evening, April 2, 1995 in Stockholm, Sweden.
		Hannes Alfvén has played a central role in the development of several modern fields of physics, including plasma physics, the physics of charged particle beams, and interplanetary and magnetospheric physics.
		Hannes Olof Gosta Alfvén was born on May 30, 1908, in Norrkorping, Sweden.
	public.lanl.gov /alp/plasma/people/alfven.html (3177 words)

	GENERALIZATION OF MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMIC THEORY
		Abstract: Almost half a century after Alfven conceived of the science of magnetohydrodynamics, it is still possible to trace his intuitive thinking to explore physical processes heretofore not considered.
		What is more, this extolling of Alfven based on an enumeration of his ideas and their striking successes and sad suppressions completely misses the true essence of his scientific genius that is equal to that of Newton, Einstein or Maxwell.
		It is that he, Alfven, for the first time, recognized that magnetic field is a consideration of the most rudimentary importance; that the place of magnetic field in the scheme of physics had not been properly understood.
	www.geocities.com /bibhasde/mhe.html (2425 words)

	AGU Web Site: The Life and Times of a Premier Space Physicist
		In 1940, at only 32 years of age, Hannes Alfvén was appointed Professor of Electromagnetic Theory and Electric Measurements at the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm.
		In an entirely different arena, he was first to offer a plasma-physics theory for the formation of comet tails in the expanding solar plasma known as the solar wind.
		Hannes Alfvén is being handed the Nobel Prize by the King of Sweden.
	www.agu.org /sci_soc/alfven.html (1975 words)

	Planet X & The coming Earth changes
		In 1954, Alfven published On the origin of the Solar System which, in 1975, was expanded as Structure and Evolutionary History of the Solar System, co-authored with Gustaf Arrhenius.
		Thus Alfven states "In cosmic physics, electromagnetic processes have recently attracted a rapidly increasing interest, and it is now generally realized that they are of fundamental importance.
		Alfven goes on to point out that it was not "until classical electrodynamics had been combined with hydrodynamics to form magneto-hydrodynamics, which further must be combined with plasma physics in order to allow a deeper understanding of electromagnetic phenomena in cosmic physics." (ibid., p.2.)
	www.crawford2000.co.uk /xchanges.htm (2929 words)

	Space Weather Center
		Hannes Alfvén was born in Norrkorping, Sweden in 1908.
		Many physical concepts that he suggested continue to inform the work of scientists who are working in the fields of plasma and space physics.
		Some applications of Alfvén’s research: explanations of the Van Allen radiation belts, the shrinking of Earth's magnetic field during magnetic storms, the formation of comet tails, the formation of the solar system and the dynamics of plasmas in our galaxy.
	www.spaceweathercenter.org /amazing_plasmas/02/02_04.html (187 words)

	A "Tornado" In Space
		Bottom: Hannes Alfvén, the father of modern plasma science, receiving his Nobel Prize from the King of Sweden in 1970.
		But in the face of this acknowledgement, how could they preserve their foundational principle, which implies that electricity does not "do anything" in the macrocosm?
		For a time astronomers thought they had an ally in the brilliant electrical engineer, Hannes Alfvén, to whom all of modern physics is indebted for new insights on the role of electric and magnetic fields in plasma.
	www.rense.com /general69/tor2.htm (1310 words)

	Hannes Alfvén - A physics genius
		It criticised earlier speculations concerning cosmic radiation because they did not "seem to be in accordance with the latest experimental results", and he stated that it should be possible to "explain the origin of the cosmic rays, introducing no new hypotheses, and only applying the kinetic gas theory to the conditions of world space".
		For example, his proposal of the double layer was, in part, based on his experience with mercury-vapour rectifiers used in commercial, high-voltage DC transmission.
		His death has left many of us with a feeling of great loss but also of deep gratitude for all that he has meant as a scientist and as a friend.
	www.eutopia.no /Alfveen.htm (2162 words)

	Bibhas De's Physics - an Imaginarium of ideas not dreamed of even in science fiction
		Hannes Alfvén on Bibhas De (Bibhas) De predicted the existence of a ring around Uranus which was discovered several years later (see B. De, 1978).
		The portions in green are the discoveries of Hannes Alfvén.
		Hannes Alfven spent his entire scientific life stressing the central role of magnetic field in the large-scale structure of the Universe.
	www.geocities.com /bibhasde/physics.html (881 words)

	Hannes Olof Gösta Alfvén
		Hannes Olof Gösta Alfvén (May 30, 1908; Norrköping, Sweden - April 2, 1995; Djursholm, Sweden) is known as a Swedish plasma physicist who won the Nobel Prize in 1970 for his work developing magnetohydrodynamics theory.
		Hannes Alfven Medal - awarded for outstanding scientific contributions towards the understanding of plasma processes in the solar system and other cosmical plasma environments
		Hannes Alfven Papers (1945 - 1991) in the Mandeville Special Collections Library.
	www.mlahanas.de /Physics/Bios/HannesAlfven.html (1386 words)

	Hannes Alfvén: Dean of the Plasma Dissidents - Anthony L. Peratt
		Hannes Alfvén: Dean of the Plasma Dissidents - Anthony L. Peratt
		In the world of specialized science, Swedish electrical engineer Hannes Alfvén is an enigma.
		Regarded as a heretic by many physicists, Alfvén has made contributions to physics that are today being applied in the development of particle beam accelerators, controlled thermonuclear fusion, hypersonic flight, rocket propulsion, and the braking of reentering space vehicles.
	www.worldandi.com /specialreport/1988/May/Sa14650.htm (245 words)

	Memoirs Of A Dissident Scientists
		The reflections of Alfven on the development of cosmic-ray theory are rather amusing; they reveal how much people and ideas change.
		Alfven originally maintained that cosmic rays were of galactic origin.
		Alfven concludes his reminiscing with a paragraph that says much about today's scientific environment:
	www.science-frontiers.com /sf059/sf059p06.htm (373 words)

	Successful Predictions Mean Little In Science
		We first met Alfven in SF#59,where we commented on his paper "Memoirs of a Dissident Scientist." Alfven is still a dissident, a scientist who has the temerity to claim that cosmic rays have a local rather than galactic origin.
		The subject of this entry is not so much Alfven's conflicts with accepted scientific views, but rather whether correct scientific predictions really influence the scientific community's acceptance of theories.
		Brush concludes that the continuing resistance to Alfven's work is due to the widely held opinion that his theory is not plausible; that is, it does not conform to the dominant paradigm.
	www.science-frontiers.com /sf070/sf070g19.htm (394 words)

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