Hannes Alfvén
Swedish electrical engineer
Hannes Olof Gösta Alfvén was a Swedish electrical engineer, plasma physicist and winner of the 1970 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on magnetohydrodynamics. He described the class of MHD waves now known as Alfvén waves. Wikipedia
Born: May 30, 1908, Norrköping, Sweden
Died: April 2, 1995 (age 86 years), Danderyd Municipality, Sweden
Grandchild: Johannes Albin Alfvén
Children: Inger Alfvén and Gösta Alfvén
Parents: Johannes Alfvén and Anna-Clara Romanus-Alfvén