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Proposed and calculated transverse waves coupling a conducting fluid to a magnetic field, identifying what became known as Alfvén waves.
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The record is Alfvén's sole-author 1942 Nature letter and its idealized calculation. It is not an experimental detection, a complete magnetohydrodynamic theory, or a record for every later plasma-wave result.
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- Nature record for electromagnetic-hydrodynamic waves
- Solar Physics historical assessment of Alfvén waves
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H. Alfvén
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Alfvén: existence of electromagnetic-hydrodynamic waves
Proposed and calculated transverse waves coupling a conducting fluid to a magnetic field, identifying what became known as Alfvén waves.
Scientific scope
The record is Alfvén's sole-author 1942 Nature letter and its idealized calculation. It is not an experimental detection, a complete magnetohydrodynamic theory, or a record for every later plasma-wave result.
Reading status
This is a source-linked WRS catalogue note. A full explanatory guide and independent scientific reconstruction have not been completed for this entry. Read the identified original work for its complete narrative and arguments.
People and systems
H. Alfvén
The named authors contributed to this scoped work; individual effort shares and later applications are not assigned by the byline.