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James Alfred Van Allen (born September 7 1914) is an American physicist associated with the University of Iowa. The Van Allen radiation belts were named after him, following the 1958 satellite missions ( Explorer I and Explorer III) in which Van Allen had argued that a Geiger counter should be used to detect charged particles.
Honors
- Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1978
- Crafoord Prize in 1989
- Vannevar Bush AwardThe Vannevar Bush Award has been given each year since 1980 by National Science Foundation to persons who contributed most "toward the welfare of mankind and the nation". The award is named after the American scientist Vannevar Bush (1890-1974). List of w in 19911991 like 2002, is a palindromic year. It also has the same calendar as 2002, including Easter on March 31. It is a common year starting on Tuesday. Events January January 2 Sharon Pratt Dixon is sworn in as mayor of Washington, DC becoming the first blac
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