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James Van Allen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Title:; Obituary: James Alfred Van Allen, 1914-2006 ... James Alfred Van Allen, world-renowned space scientist, died 9 August 2006 at the age of ninety-one. He succumbed to heart failure after a ten-week period of declining health.
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James Alfred Van Allen was born on 7 September 1914 on a small farm near Mount Pleasant, Iowa, the second of four sons of Alfred Morris and Alma Olney Van ...
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Newton, David E. "James A. Van Allen," In Notable Twentieth-Century Scientists, edited by Emily J. McMurray et al. New York: Gale Research, 1995, 2072-72. ... Van Allen, James A. Origins of Magnetospheric Physics. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1983.
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US physicist whose instruments aboard the first US satellite Explorer 1 1958 led to the discovery of the Van Allen belts, two zones of intense radiation around the Earth. He pioneered high-altitude research with rockets after World War II.
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of Iowa, where he was an influential teacher, Van Allen discovered what are now known as the Van Allen radiation belts, regions of intense radiation surrounding the earth in space. The belts were first identified by instruments Van Allen prepared that were launched in U.S. Explorer and Pioneer satellites (1958).
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Van Allen detected the radiation belts that would later bear his name from a Geiger counter he designed for installation on Explorer I, the first U.S. space satellite, launched in 1958. He also designed scientific instruments for later space research ... By the time Jesse James was killed in 1882, ... Alfred Emanuel Smith,
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Encyclopedia article about Van Allen, James Alfred. Information about Van Allen, James Alfred in the Columbia Encyclopedia, Computer Desktop Encyclopedia, computing dictionary. ... Van Allen, James Alfred; Van Allsburg, Chris; Van Allsburg, Chris; Van Alsloot; Van Alstyne; Van Alstyne (TX); Van Alstyne Independent...
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Encyclopedia article about Van Allen, James Alfred. Information about Van Allen, James Alfred in the Columbia Encyclopedia, Computer Desktop Encyclopedia, computing dictionary. ... vampire device; vampire tap; van; Van Allen; Van Allen belt; Van Allen radiation belts; Van Allen, James; Van Allen, James Alfred; Van Allsburg,
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The papers chronicle Van Allen's professional career in upper atmosphere research, space physics research, and academia; and document how the shifting research trends affected his career.
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