What major field did Alfvén contribute to besides physics?
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Hannes Alfvén was a Swedish physicist and engineer who made important contributions to the understanding of plasma physics, which is the physics of ionized gases. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1970 for his work on magnetohydrodynamics (MHD), which is the study of the interaction of magnetic fields and plasmas.
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