Hannes Alfvén

Hannes Olof Gösta Alfvén (May 30, 1908; Norrköping,

Personal life

Alfvén had a good sense of humor and he participated in a variety of social issues and worldwide disarmament movements. He had a long-standing distrust of computers. Alfvén studied the history of science and oriental philosophy and religion. He spoke English, German, French, and Russian, and some Spanish and Chinese.

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Humor - Worldwide disarmament movement - Computer - History of science - Oriental philosophy - Religion - English - German - French - Russian - Spanish - Chinese

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Hannes Alfvén was married for 67 years to Kirsten. They raised five children, one boy and four girls. The son became a physician. One daughter became a writer in Sweden and one a lawyer.

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Child - Boy - Girl

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Alfvén wrote popular science books:

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: Worlds-Antiworlds: Antimatter in Cosmology (1966)

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: The Great Computer: A Vision (1968)

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: Atom, Man, and the Universe: A Long Chain of Complications (1969)

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: Living on the Third Planet (1972).

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