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Van Allen

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Van Allen
James Alfred. born 1914, US physicist, noted for his use of satellites to investigate cosmic radiation in the upper atmosphere


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Historian Rodger Van Allen has written that John was part of a subtle but substantive shift that took place at the journal during that period: it was no less intellectual but it became more issues-oriented and activist.
Colleagues at Iowa told Hansen that Van Allen was happy to welcome him home.
Previous research suggested that radio waves clear out a zone within the region of radiation called the Van Allen belts.
 
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