The 1970 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded today to a Swede teaching at the University of California's San Diego campus, Professor Hannes Alfven, and the Frenchman, Louis Neel of Grenoble University. Alfven was honored for "fundamental work and discoveries in magneto Hydrodynamics with fruitful application in different parts of plasma physics " the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced. Photo shows Professor Hannes Alfven.
Photo measures 8 x 10.25 inches.
Photo is dated 10-10-1970.
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