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James Alfred,
1914–2006,
U.S. physicist.
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Van Allen
(væn ˈælən)
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James Alfred.
1914--2006, US physicist, noted for his use of satellites to investigate cosmic radiation in the upper atmosphere
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Van Allen
name of radiation belts around the Earth (and certain other planets), 1939, from U.S. physicist James A. Van Allen(b.1914), who reported them in 1958.
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