{"id":2373,"date":"2023-12-14T09:39:38","date_gmt":"2023-12-14T08:39:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kth.se\/blogs\/rektor\/?p=2373"},"modified":"2023-12-14T09:39:38","modified_gmt":"2023-12-14T08:39:38","slug":"arvet-fran-alfven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kth.se\/blogs\/rektor\/2023\/12\/arvet-fran-alfven\/","title":{"rendered":"Arvet fr\u00e5n Alfv\u00e9n"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-content-wrapper\"><div class=\"lead lead-paragraph\">F\u00f6r ett \u00e5r sedan gjorde operan <em>The tale of the Great Computing Machine<\/em>\u00a0 succ\u00e9 p\u00e5 KTH. Den bygger p\u00e5 \u201dSagan om den stora datamaskinen\u201d som skrevs av Hannes Alfv\u00e9n 1966. Han var KTH-professor och nobelpristagare och nyligen delades \u00e5rets olika nobelpris ut. Att jobba p\u00e5 KTH som kryllar av talanger och stj\u00e4rnor g\u00f6r mig onekligen stolt &#8211; snart kanske v\u00e5rt andra nobelpris \u00e4r p\u00e5 ing\u00e5ng-vem vet?<\/div>\n<p>Hannes Alfv\u00e9n fick priset i fysik 1970 och jag har alltid vart nyfiken p\u00e5 honom ocks\u00e5 som person. Vem var han och vilket arv l\u00e4mnade han efter sig till sitt alma mater?<strong>F\u00f6r ett tag sedan fick jag som svar p\u00e5 det<\/strong> en fantastisk bok \u201dTidens retorik\u201d\u00a0 i mina h\u00e4nder. Den \u00e4r skriven av <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kth.se\/om\/nyheter\/centrala-nyheter\/nobelpristagare-som-fascinerar-1.1304042\">Svante Lindqvist, tidigare professor i teknikhistoria vid KTH och som l\u00e4nge fascinerats av Alfv\u00e9n<\/a>. \u00c4n har jag inte l\u00e4st hela den omfattande volymen &#8211; ska jag villigt erk\u00e4nna &#8211; men bilden av en i allra h\u00f6gsta grad engagerad och gedigen forskare tr\u00e4der fram. Han tycks ha varit rej\u00e4lt nyfiken inte bara p\u00e5 vetenskapen utan ocks\u00e5 p\u00e5 samh\u00e4llet i vilken den verkar.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Att v\u00e5ga vara kritisk<\/strong> och se hur olika tekniska landvinningar ocks\u00e5 kan ha en baksida k\u00e4nns som ett arv fr\u00e5n Alfv\u00e9n. Han var, f\u00f6rutom en extraordin\u00e4r forskare, ocks\u00e5 en engagerad samh\u00e4llsdebatt\u00f6r och kom med tiden att ta st\u00e4llning mot k\u00e4rnkraften. Det var ett st\u00e4llningstagande som inte uppskattades i alla delar av samh\u00e4llet vid den tidpunkten men som \u00e4nd\u00e5 visar p\u00e5 hans stora integritet och engagemang f\u00f6r samtidsfr\u00e5gorna.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ett annat engagemang, om man nu f\u00e5r lov att spekulera<\/strong> var som b\u00e4rare av KTH:s tradition av ett n\u00e4ra samarbete och v\u00e4xelspel med industrin och samh\u00e4llet runtomkring. N\u00e5got som vi drygt 80 \u00e5r senare b\u00e4r vidare i v\u00e5ra strategiska partnerskap.<\/p>\n<p>Alfv\u00e9n uppfann tydligen trokotronen vars patent s\u00e5ldes till LM Ericsson 1946 f\u00f6r en summa som \u00f6versteg Nobelpriset som han fick l\u00e5ngt senare.<\/p>\n<p><strong>F\u00f6r \u00f6vrigt \u00f6nskar jag alla en god jul och ett gott nytt \u00e5r n\u00e4r det \u00e4r dags!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>F\u00f6r ett \u00e5r sedan gjorde operan The tale of the Great Computing Machine\u00a0 succ\u00e9 p\u00e5 KTH. Den bygger p\u00e5 \u201dSagan om den stora datamaskinen\u201d som skrevs av Hannes Alfv\u00e9n 1966. Han var KTH-professor och nobelpristagare och nyligen delades \u00e5rets olika nobelpris ut. 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