Alfvén may refer to:
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Hannes Alfvén
Hannes Olof Gösta Alfvén (; 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 ...
(1908–1995), Swedish plasma physicist and Nobel Prize in Physics laureate
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Hugo Alfvén
Hugo Emil Alfvén (; 1 May 18728 May 1960) was a Swedish composer, conductor, violinist, and painter.
Career
Violinist
Alfvén was born in Stockholm, Sweden, and studied at the Royal College of Music (Kungliga Musikhögskolan) from 1887 ...
(1872–1960), Swedish composer, conductor, violinist, and painter
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Marie Triepcke Krøyer Alfvén
Marie may refer to:
People Name
* Marie (given name)
* Marie (Japanese given name)
* Marie (murder victim), girl who was killed in Florida after being pushed in front of a moving vehicle in 1973
* Marie (died 1759), an enslaved Cree person in Tr ...
(1867–1940), commonly known as Marie Krøyer, Danish painter, wife of Hugo
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Alfvén wave
In plasma physics, an Alfvén wave, named after Hannes Alfvén, is a type of plasma wave in which ions oscillate in response to a restoring force provided by an effective tension on the magnetic field lines.
Definition
An Alfvén wave is ...
, a type of magnetohydrodynamic wave, named after Hannes Alfvén
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1778 Alfvén
1778 Alfvén, also designated , is a carbonaceous Themistian asteroid from the outer region of the asteroid belt, approximately 20 kilometers in diameter.
It was discovered on 26 September 1960, by astronomers Cornelis van Houten, Ingrid van Hou ...
, an asteroid discovered in 1960, named after Hannes Alfvén
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