Carl-Gunne Fälthammar (born 4 December 1931, Markaryd,

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) is Professor Emeritus at the

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, specialising in space and plasma physics in the School of Electrical Engineering. He succeeded

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 ...

as Professor of Plasma Physics in 1975. His research interests include plasma electrodynamics, with application to space and astrophysical plasmas, especially in the context of auroral and

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. He is also the Associate Editor of the journa
Astrophysics and Space Science

Education

In 1956 he earned the Swedish equivalent to a master's degree (civilingenjör), and in 1960 the equivalent of a Ph.D. (Tekn. lic.), and in 1966 the position of

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(approximately assistant professor), all from the

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Career

From July 1967 until June 1997, Fälthammar headed the Division of Plasma Physics of the Alfvén Laboratory. In 1969, he became Associate Professor of Plasma Physics at the Royal Institute of Technology, and in 1975, succeeded

as Professor of Plasma Physics there.

Awards

In 1989, he was awarded an Honorary Doctor's degree by the Faculty of Science of the

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. He is also a recipient of the Golden Badge Award of the

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and the Basic Sciences Award of the

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. In 1998 he was awarded the Hannes Alfvén Medal of the European Geophysical Society in recognition of his services as Editor of the Society’s journal ''Annales Geophysicae''.EGS Hannes Alfvén Medallist - 1998

Bibliography

Books

*
Magnetospheric Physics - Achievements and prospects
' (1993) co-authored with Bengt Hultqvist, Plenum Publ. Co. Ltd., London, UK, 1990, 190 pp., hard cover. $65.00/s. . * ''Cosmical electrodynamics: fundamental principles'' (1962) co-authored with Hannes Alfvén, Clarendon Press, Oxford.

Papers

Papers
listed on the Smithsonian/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

Footnotes

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