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Researchers Explain Magnetic Field Misbehavior in Solar Flares
Space Daily
The flux-freezing theorem was developed 70 years ago by Hannes Alfven, who later won a Nobel Prize in physics for closely related work. His principle states that magnetic lines of force are carried along in a moving fluid like strands of thread cast ...

Nobel Prize-Winning Physicist Henrich Rohrer Dies at 79
Nature World News
Switzerland's Heinrich Rohrer smiles with his medal as he leaves the royal monastery of Yuste after a ceremony in which he became a member of the European Academy of Yuste June 25. Rohrer was awarded the Nobel prize in physics in 1986. (Photo ...

Heinrich Rohrer, Nobel Prize-winning physicist, dies at 79
Washington Post
Heinrich Rohrer, a Swiss physicist and one of the two Nobel Prize-winning scientists who helped make possible the modern field of nanotechnology by inventing a microscope that could readily see individual atoms, died May 16. He was 79. The Swiss ...

Swiss Nobel physicist dies at 80
World Radio Switzerland
Swiss Nobel physicist dies at 80. Heinrich Rohrer, one of the fathers of nanotechnology and winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics, has died. Rohrer, who was 80, passed away at his home in the canton of Schwyz. Rohrer studied at ETH Zurich and then ...