Hannes Alfvén

Swedish electrical engineer, plasma physicist and Nobel laureate (1908-1995)

Hannes Alfvén
Hannes Olof Gösta Alfvén (Swedish: [alˈveːn]; 30 May 1908 – 2 April 1995) 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 engineer and later moved to research and teaching in the fields of plasma physics and electrical engineering. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannes_Alfv%C3%A9n

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