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Van Allen   /væn ˈælən/   Listen
Van Allen

noun
1.
United States physicist who discovered two belts of charged particles from the solar wind trapped by the Earth's magnetic field (born in 1914).  Synonym: James Alfred Van Allen.



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... Sharll Renner and Alvyn Karffard and the other old hands seemed to recognize it. Karffard was talking by phone to Paul Koreff, the signals-and-detection officer, who could detect nothing from the moon and nothing that was getting through the Van Allen belt ...
— Space Viking • Henry Beam Piper


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