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1908–1995 Sweden
Hannes Olof Gösta Alfvén (30 May 1908, Norrköping, Sweden – 2 April 1995, Djursholm, Sweden) 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.
Sweden Nobel laureates Physicists Also known as: Alfven, Hannes, Alfvén, Hannes, Hannes Alfven
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Scientists tend to resist interdisciplinary inquiries into their own territory.
Dean of the Plasma Dissidents (1988)
The key is not to confuse myth and empirical results, or religion and science.
Dean of the Plasma Dissidents (1988)
I have no trouble publishing in Soviet astrophysical journals, but my work is unacceptable to the American astrophysical journals.
Dean of the Plasma Dissidents (1988)
The peer review system is satisfactory during quiescent times, but not during a revolution in a discipline such as astrophysics, when the establishment seeks to preserve the status quo.
Dean of the Plasma Dissidents (1988)
Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe ... every newspaper in the land has a section on astrology, yet few have anything at all on astronomy.
Dean of the Plasma Dissidents (1988)
We should remember that there was once a discipline called natural philosophy. Unfortunately, this discipline seems not to exist today. It has been renamed science, but science of today is in danger of losing much of the natural philosophy aspect.
Dean of the Plasma Dissidents (1988)
There is no rational reason to doubt that the universe has existed indefinitely, for an infinite time. It is only myth that attempts to say how the universe came to be, either four thousand or twenty billion years ago.
Dean of the Plasma Dissidents (1988)
I have never thought that you could obtain the extremely clumpy, heterogeneous universe we have today, strongly affected by plasma processes, from the smooth, homogeneous one of the Big Bang, dominated by gravitation.
Dean of the Plasma Dissidents (1988)
Students using astrophysical textbooks remain essentially ignorant of even the existence of plasma concepts, despite the fact that some of them have been known for half a century. The conclusion is that astrophysics is too important to be left in the hands of astrophysicists who have gotten their main knowledge from these textbooks. Earthbound and space telescope data must be treated by scientists who are familiar with laboratory and magnetospheric physics and circuit theory, and of course with modern plasma theory.
Dean of the Plasma Dissidents (1988)
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