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Chapters: Anders Celsius, Svante Arrhenius, Peter Nilson, Hannes Alfvén, Max Tegmark, Claes-Ingvar Lagerkvist, Anders Jonas Ångström, Anders Lindstedt, Anders Johan Lexell, Oskar Backlund, Pehr Wilhelm Wargentin, Bertil Lindblad, Carl Charlier, Bengt Edlén, Knut Lundmark, Petrus Astronomus, Gunnar Malmquist, Elis Strömgren, Nils Christoffer Dunér, Erik Tengström, Erik Prosperin, Åke Wallenquist, Hugo Gyldén, Olof Hiorter, Leif Erland Andersson, Edvard Hugo Von Zeipel, Östen Bergstrand, Axel Möller, Bengt Gustafsson, Alexis Brandeker, Tarmo Oja, Malcolm Fridlund, Magnus Celsius. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 105. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Hannes Olof Gösta Alfvén (born 30 May 1908 in Norrköping, Sweden; died 2 April 1995 in Djursholm, Sweden) 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 known as Alfvén waves. He was originally trained as an electrical power engineer and later moved to research and teaching in the fields of plasma physics and electrical engineering. Alfvén made many contributions to plasma physics, including theories describing the behavior of aurorae, the Van Allen radiation belts, the effect of magnetic storms on the Earth's magnetic field, the terrestrial magnetosphere, and the dynamics of plasmas in the Milky Way galaxy. In 1937, Alfvén argued that if plasma pervaded the universe, it could then carry electric currents capable of generating a galactic magnetic field. After winning the Nobel Prize for his works in magnetohydrodynamics, he emphasized that: In order to understand the phenomena in a certain plasma region, it is necessary to map not only the magnetic but also the electric field and the electric currents. Spa...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=165123 ... Read more