In Recognition of the
Hannes Alfvén Birth Centennial
30 May 2008
Twenty Years Ago ---
Hannes Alfvén celebrates his 80th birthday at a party held in his honor at the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, on 30 May 1988. (Reprinted from Guest Editorial, The Golden Anniversary of "Magnetic Storms and the Aurorae", T. A. Potemra and A. L. Peratt, IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science, 1989).
Next: Alfvén, Dean of the Plasma Dissidents
Other Tributes and Memoirs:
Bibhas De, A Pictorial Tribute,
"Hannes
Alfvén
Birth Centennial", A pictorial tribute by Bibhas De
Carl-Gunne Fälthammar and Alexander J. Dessler,
"Hannes Alfvén
biographical memoirs",
Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 150, No. 4,
2005.
http://www.aps-pub.com/proceedings/1504/150412.pdf
R. S. Pease and S. Lindqvist, "Hannes Olof
Gosta Alfven. 30 May 1908—2 April 1995",
in Biographical
Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society, Vol. 44, Nov. 1998, pp. 2-19.
http://www.journals.royalsoc.ac.uk/content/f3207q54p22x3362/fulltext.pdf
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