the interstellar medium. 1958: Berthold, Harris, and Hope detect Alfvén waves in the ionosphere after the Argus nuclear test, generated by the explosion, and traveling at speeds predicted by Alfvén formula. 1958: Eugene Parker suggests hydromagnetic waves in the Solar corona extending into the Solar wind. 1959: D. F. Jephcott produces Alfvén waves in a gas discharge. 1959: C. H. Kelley and J. Yenser produce Alfvén waves in the ambient atmosphere. 1960: Coleman et al. report the measurement of Alfvén waves by the magnetometer aboard the Pioneer and Explorer satellites. 1961: Sugiura suggests evidence of hydromagnetic waves in the Earth's magnetic field. 1961: Normal Alfvén modes and resonances in liquid sodium are studied by Jameson. 1966: R. O. Motz generates and observes Alfvén waves in mercury. 1970: Hannes Alfvén wins the 1970 Nobel Prize in physics for "fundamental work and discoveries in magneto-hydrodynamics with fruitful applications in different parts of plasma physics". 1973: Eugene Parker suggests hydromagnetic waves in the intergalactic medium. 1974: J. V. Hollweg suggests the existence of hydromagnetic waves in interplanetary space. 1977: Mendis and Ip suggest the existence of hydromagnetic waves in the coma of Comet Kohoutek. 1984: Roberts et al. predict the presence of standing MHD waves in the solar corona and opens the field of coronal seismology. 1999: Aschwanden et al. and Nakariakov et al. report the detection of damped transverse oscillations of solar coronal loops observed with the extreme ultraviolet (EUV) imager on board the Transition Region And Coronal Explorer (TRACE), interpreted as standing kink (or "Alfvénic") oscillations of the loops. This confirms the theoretical prediction of Roberts et al. (1984). 2007: Tomczyk et al. reported the detection of Alfvénic waves in images of the solar corona with the Coronal Multi-Channel Polarimeter (CoMP) instrument at the National Solar Observatory, New Mexico. However, these observations turned out to be kink waves of coronal plasma structures. 2007: A special issue on the Hinode space observatory was released in the journal Science. Alfvén wave signatures in the coronal atmosphere were observed by Cirtain et al., Okamoto et al., and De Pontieu et al. An estimation of the observed waves' energy density by De Pontieu et al. have show that the energy associated with the waves is sufficient to heat the corona and accelerate the solar wind. 2008: Kaghashvili et al. uses driven wave fluctuations as a diagnostic tool to detect Alfvén waves in the solar corona.