'Carl-Gunne Fälthammar' (b.
1931,
Markaryd, Sweden) is Professor Emeritus at the
Royal Institute of Technology in
Stockholm, Sweden, specialising in
space and plasma physics in the School of Electrical Engineering. He succeeded
Hannes Alfvén as Professor of Plasma Physics in
1975.
[1]
His research interests include
plasma electrodynamics, with application to space and
astrophysical plasmas, especially in the context of
auroral and
magnetospheric physics. He is also the Associate Editor of the journal
Astrophysics and Space Science.
[2]
Education
In
1956 he earned the Swedish equivalent to a Master's degree (civilingenjör), and in
1960 the equivalent of a Ph.D. (Tekn. lic.), and in
1966 the position of
Docent (approximately assistant professor), all from the
Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden.
Career
From
July 1967 until
June 1997, Fälthammar headed the Division of Plasma Physics of the Alfvén Laboratory. In
1969, he became Associate Professor of Plasma Physics at the Royal Institute of Technology, and in
1975, succeeded
Hannes Alfvén as Professor of Plasma Physics there.
Awards
In
1989, he was awarded an Honorary Doctor's degree by the Faculty of Science of the
University of Oulu,
Finland. He is also a recipient of the
Golden Badge Award of the
European Geophysical Society and the
Basic Sciences Award of the
International Academy of Astronautics. In
1998 he was awarded the
Hannes Alfvén Medal of the European Geophysical Society in recognition of his services as Editor of the Society’s journal ''Annales Geophysicae''.
[3]
Footnotes
1. Carl-Gunne Fälthammar Home page at the KTH School of Electrical Engineering
2. ''Astrophysics and Space Science'', see: Editorial Board
3. EGS Hannes Alfvén Medallist - 1998
Biography
Papers
★
Papers listed on the Smithsonian/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
Books
★ ''
Magnetospheric Physics - Achievements and prospects'' (1993) co-authored with Bengt Hultqvist, Plenum Publ. Co. Ltd., London, UK, 1990, 190 pp., hard cover. $65.00/s. ISBN 0-306-43804-6.
★ ''Cosmical electrodynamics: fundamental principles'' (1962) co-authored with Hannes Alfvén, Clarendon Press, Oxford.
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