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James Van Allen

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Our family was very fond of the University of Iowa. We thought it was a good place to go.


— James Van Allen


#fond #go #good #good place #iowa

These days, it's really been uninteresting except when disasters occur.


— James Van Allen


#days #disasters #except #occur #really

We had an erector set, and I was an avid fan of Popular Mechanics and Popular Science magazines.


— James Van Allen


#fan #had #i #magazines #mechanics






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1952: As TIME reported in 1959 "Van Allen’s ‘Rockoons’ could not be fired in Iowa for fear that the spent rockets would strike an Iowan or his house. 1985: Van Allen stepped down as the head of the Dept. S.

The Van Allen radiation belts were named after him following the 1958 satellite missions (Explorer 1 and Explorer 3) in which Van Allen had argued that a Geiger counter should be used to detect charged particles.

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