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Date of Birth
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07-September-1914
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Place of Birth
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Mount Pleasant
(Henry County, Iowa, United States of America)
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Nationality
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United States of America
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Profession
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Physicist, Astronomer, Professor
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James Alfred Van Allen was an American space scientist at the University of Iowa. He was instrumental in establishing the field of magnetospheric research in space.
The Van Allen radiation belts were named after him, following their discovery by his Geiger–Müller tube instruments on the 1958 satellites: during the International Geophysical Year. Van Allen led the scientific community for the inclusion of scientific research instruments on space satellites.
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