What is Hannes Alfvén?
{{Infobox scientist | name = Hannes Alfvén | caption = Alfvén in 1942 | birth_name = Hannes Olof Gösta Alfvén | image = YoungAlfven.jpg | image_size = 200px | birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1908|5|30}} | birth_place = [[Norrköping]], Sweden | death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1995|4|2|1908|5|30}} | death_place = [[Djursholm]], Sweden | field = [[Electrical engineering]] and [[plasma (physics)|Plasma physics]] | alma_mater = [[University of Uppsala]] | doctoral_advisor = [[Manne Siegbahn]]<br />[[Carl Wilhelm Oseen]] | doctoral_students = {{Plainlist| * [[Carl-Gunne Fälthammar]] }} | work_institution = {{Plainlist| * [[University of Uppsala]] * [[Royal Institute of Technology]] * [[University of California, San Diego]] * [[University of Maryland, College Park]] * [[University of Southern California]]}} | known_for = {{Plainlist| * [[Magnetohydrodynamics]] * [[Critical ionization velocity]] * [[Double layer (plasma physics)|Double layer]] * [[Alfvén wave]] * [[Alfvén–Klein cosmology|Alfvén–Klein model]] * [[Alfvén's theorem]] }} | prizes = {{Plainlist| * [[Björkénska priset]] <small>(1946)</small> * [[Nobel Prize in Physics]] {{small|(1970)}} * [[Lomonosov Gold Medal]] {{small|(1971)}} * [[Dirac Medal]] {{small|(1979)}} * [[Fellow of the Royal Society|ForMemRS]] {{small|(1980)}} * [[William Bowie Medal]] {{small|(1988)}}}} }} {{nobelprize|Physics}}'''Hannes Olof Gösta Alfvén''' ({{IPA-sv|alˈveːn|lang}}; 30 May 1908 – 2 April 1995) was a Swedish [[electrical engineer]] and [[Plasma (physics)|plasma]] physicist. He was the winner of the 1970 [[Nobel Prize in Physics]] for his work on [[magnetohydrodynamics]] (MHD).<ref>{{cite work|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1995/04/05/obituaries/hannes-alfven-86-founder-of-field-in-physics-is-dead.html|author=Walter Sullivan|title=Hannes Alfven, 86, Founder Of Field in Physics, Is Dead|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=April 5, 1995}}</ref> ==References== {{r