Welcome! Check out today's deaths, recent deaths, or our deaths stats.

Feeling experimental? Head on over to our newest (and darkest) feature: Next-2-Die™ predictions

Hannes Alfvén

Swedish electrical engineer, plasma physicist and science fiction author (1908-1995), winner of the 1970 nobel prize for physics.

Born May 30th, 1908 in Norrköping. [ref]

Died April 2nd, 1995 at 86 years old in Danderyd parish. [ref]

Occupations
astronomer, astrophysicist, electrical engineer, engineer, physicist, science fiction writer, university teacher
Wikipedia
Hannes_Alfv%C3%A9n

Death is beautiful when seen to be a law, and not an accident. Henry David Thoreau