Quote of the day
Only this incident inseparable every custom must have, viz., that it be consonant to reason; for how long soever it hath continued, if it be against reason, it is of no force in law.
Hannes Alfvén
Born: May 30, 1908
Died: April 2, 1995 (aged 86)
Bio: Hannes Olof Gösta Alfvén was a Swedish electrical engineer, plasma physicist and winner of the 1970 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on magnetohydrodynamics. He described the class of MHD waves now known as Alfvén waves.
Known for:
- Cosmical electrodynamics (1950)
- Cosmic plasma (1981)
- Evolution of the solar system (1976)
- Worlds-antiworlds; antimatter in cosmology (1966)
- Living on the third planet (1972)