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It was discovered by James Van Allen five years earlier.
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It was discovered by James Van Allen five years earlier.
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It was discovered by James Van Allen five years earlier.
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Meanwhile, he is unceasing in his personal and professional attacks on James Hansen, who was a protege of James Van Allen!
Rabett Run EliRabett 2009
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May 1, 1958: A story in the Washington Evening Star reveals the discovery by scientist James Van Allen of two "belts" of radiation around the Earth.
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A few weeks ago the physicist James Van Allen died in Iowa City at the age of 91.
On Boldly Going 2007
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The IGY was conceived by a number of post-WWII eminent physicists, including Sydney Chapman, James Van Allen, and Lloyd Berkner, at an informal gathering in Washington, DC in 1950.
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Notable Space Scientist James Van Allen, who discovered the Van Allen bands of magnetic field which surround the earth, is dead at 91.
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The belt is named after its discoverer, the twentieth-century American physicist James Van Allen.
Van Allen belt 2002
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James Van Allen, an astrophysicist working on the project as part of the International Geophysical Year 1957-58, designed the on-board equipment that helped detect and return data on the radiation belts circling the Earth, belts that now bear his name.
Wired Top Stories Tony Long 2011
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