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Hannes Alfvén, Swedish physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1908)

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Hannes Alfvén

Swedish physicist and Nobel laureate (1908–1995)

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. He was originally trained as an electrical power…
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Nobel Prize in Physics

One of five prizes established in 1895 by Alfred Nobel

The Nobel Prize in Physics is an annual award given by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences for those who have made the most outstanding contributions to mankind in the field of physics. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895 and…
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April 2

Day of the year

April 2 is the 92nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 273 days remain until the end of the year.
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