Alfvň, Hannes, 1908-1995
Hannes Alfvň papers, 1945-1991.
Papers include correspondence, subject files, reprints of scholarly publications, and teaching and biographical materials which span the years 1945-1991 and document Hannes Alfven's career as a research physicist and faculty member of UCSD's engineering school. Significant correspondents include Syun Ichi Akasofu, Victor C. Anderson, Halton Arp, Per Carlqvist, Gunnar Johanson, Zdenek Kopal, Bo Lehnert, Linus Pauling, Anthony L. Peratt, Harold Urey, and Herbert York.
Astrophysicist who contributed significantly to advances in fields of magnetohydrodynamics, plasma physics, geophysics, thermonuclear reaction, and cosmology. Alfven shared the 1970 Nobel Prize in Physics with Louis Neel. His teaching posts included the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, San Diego and the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm. He was also an advocate of nuclear armaments destruction, working actively with other scientists such as Harold Urey to prevent nuclear proliferation and conflict. He died 1995.
Alfvň, Hannes, 1908-1995
University of California, San Diego -- Faculty. -- Archives.
Space sciences -- Research.
Geophysics.
Controlled fusion.
Magnetohydrodynamic waves.
Nuclear arms control.
Physics -- Study and teaching.
Physicists -- Biography. lcsh
Pugwash Conference on Science and World Affairs
Akasofu, Syun-Ichi. correspondent.
Anderson, Victor C. correspondent.
Arp, Halton C. correspondent.
Johanson, Gunnar, 1951- correspondent.
Kopal, Zden k, 1914-1993 correspondent.
Lehnert, B. (Bo), 1926- correspondent.
Peratt, Anthony L. correspondent.
Pauling, Linus, 1901-1994 correspondent.
Urey, Harold Clayton, 1893-1981 correspondent.
De Vaucouleurs, Gřard, 1918-1995 correspondent.
York, Herbert F. (Herbert Frank). correspondent.
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University of California, San Diego. Mandeville Special Collections Library. 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA