James A. Van Allen
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James A. Van Allen, the Iowa physicist who discovered the radiation belts around Earth that carried his name on the first U.S. orbital space mission, and went on to explore deep into the solar system, died Aug. 9 of heart failure. He was 91. A professor of physics and astronomy at the University of...
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