Hannes Alfvén: the Maverick Plasma Astrophysicist

iantresman · Unread post by **iantresman** » Fri May 30, 2008 8:04 am

Rather than blow my own trumpet on my TPOD on Hannes Alfvén: the Maverick Plasma Astrophysicist, I'd like to highlight:

Hannes Alfvén Birth Centennial: A pictorial tribute by Bibhas De

Unread post by **MGmirkin** » Fri May 30, 2008 4:30 pm

(Hannes Alfvén: the Maverick Plasma Astrophysicist; May 30, 2008)

100 years ago today on May 30th, 1908, Hannes Olof Gösta Alfvén was born in Norrköping, Sweden, about 100 miles southwest of Stockholm.

Hannes Alfvén is considered one of the founding fathers in the field of plasma physics. He described himself as a dissident scientist and maverick, and attitudes towards him are ambivalent. On the one hand, he received the 1970 Nobel Prize in physics for applications of his work in different areas of plasma physics. On the other hand, some of his contributions to science have been either ignored, forgotten, or unacknowledged.

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iantresman · Unread post by **iantresman** » Thu Jun 05, 2008 7:04 am

See also: Hannes Alfvén Birth Centennial
Features a scanned copy of "Alfvén, Dean of the Plasma Dissidents" By Anthony L. Peratt, published in The World, and I. (May 1988)

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