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Van Allen   /væn ˈælən/   Listen
Van Allen

noun
1.
United States physicist who discovered two belts of charged particles from the solar wind trapped by the Earth's magnetic field (born in 1914).  Synonym: James Alfred Van Allen.



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"Van Allen" Quotes from Famous Books



... two-hundred-thirty gallon space rocket Icarus, the first man into space and back. He had circled Venus and returned. No longer limited by fuel weight factors, scientists had been able to load enough shielding into the huge Icarus to protect a man from the deadly bombardment of the Van Allen radiation belts. ...
— Make Mine Homogenized • Rick Raphael


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