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Van Allen

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Van Allen [væn ˈælən]
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(Biographies / Van Allen, James Alfred (1914 M, US, SCIENCE: physicist) James Alfred. born 1914, US physicist, noted for his use of satellites to investigate cosmic radiation in the upper atmosphere
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Noun1.Van Allen - United States physicist who discovered two belts of charged particles from the solar wind trapped by the Earth's magnetic field (born in 1914)
James Alfred Van Allen


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