Hannes Alfven Quotes:
Ocupation: Engineer
Life: May 30, 1908 - April 2, 1995
Birthday: May 30
Death: April 2
Students using astrophysical textbooks remain essentially ignorant of even the existence of plasma concepts, despite the fact that some of them have been known for half a century. The conclusion is that astrophysics is too important to be left in the hands of astrophysicists who have gotten their main knowledge from these textbooks. Earthbound and space telescope data must be treated by scientists who are familiar with laboratory and magnetospheric physics and circuit theory, and of course with modern plasma theory.
source: "Hannes Alfvén: Dean of the Plasma Dissidents". Book by Anthony L. Peratt, p. 197, 1998.
topic: Data, Space, Hands, Plasma, Astrophysics, Half A Century
