What is "alfven"

Alfvén may refer to:

People

• Hannes Alfvén (1908–1995), a Swedish plasma physicist and Nobel Prize in Physics laureate
• Hugo Alfvén (1872–1960), a Swedish composer, conductor, violinist, and painter
• Marie Triepcke Krøyer Alfvén (1867–1940), commonly known as Marie Krøyer, a Danish painter, wife of Hugo Alfvén

Other

• Alfvén wave – type of magnetohydrodynamic wave, named after Hannes Alfvén
• 1778 Alfvén, an asteroid discovered in 1960, named after Hannes Alfvén
• alfven, älfven, a Swedish word for "river, stream"