History of Astronomy : Persons : Persons (A)

Alfvén, Hannes Olof Gösta

Born: May 30, 1908, Norrköping, Sweden
Died: April 2, 1995, Djursholm, Sweden

Physicist, astronomer

External documents

Biographies, bibliographies and references

• Obituary (13 May 2004: disappeared)
• Biography
  From Earth in Space, Vol. 8, No. 5, January 1996, p. 8
• Short biography (Encycl. Brit.)
• Short biography
• The Nobel Prize in Physics 1970
  Including a short biography.
• Very short biography and references (Eric Weisstein's Treasure Trove)
• Very short biography
• Very short biographical data and links
• Obituary note
  Encyclopaedia Britannica: Year in Review 1995
• Britannica Online entries
• Bibliography (Library of Congress entries)
• Bibliography (ADS entries)
• References (Library of Congress entries)
• References (ADS entries)

Archival sources

• Register of the Hannes Alfven Papers, 1945-1991 at University of California Library, Special Collections (Or see ASCII version. See also here.)
  Including a short biography

Namings

• Alfvén Waves (Eric Weisstein's Treasure Trove)
• Alfvén Laboratory, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

Further links

• Find more about Alfvén with Alta Vista
• Find more about Alfvén Waves with Alta Vista

Wolfgang R. Dick. Created: 8 Dec 1998. Latest update: 13 May 2004