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. Alfvén was one of Sweden's principal composers. His "Swedish Rhapsody”, written when he was 31, is still one of the best-known pieces of Sw ...
(1872–1960), Swedish composer, conductor, violinist, and painter
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Marie Triepcke Krøyer Alfvén
Marie may refer to the following.
People Given name
* Marie (given name), including a list of people and fictional characters with the name
** List of people named Marie
* Marie (Japanese given name)
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* Jean Gabriel-Marie, French composer ...
(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 Magnetic tension force, effective tension on the magnetic field lines.
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, a type of magnetohydrodynamic wave, named after Hannes Alfvén
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1778 Alfvén, an asteroid discovered in 1960, named after Hannes Alfvén
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