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Alf⋅vén

[ahl-veyn, al-]
–noun
Han⋅nes (O⋅lof Gö⋅sta) [hahn-nes oo-lawf yœ-stah] , 1908–1995, Swedish physicist: Nobel prize 1970.
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Alf·vén   (äl-vān')   
Swedish physicist. He won a 1970 Nobel Prize for his theories on plasma physics.
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