Encyclopedia > James Van Allen

  Article Content

James Van Allen

James Van Allen is a 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. He was awarded the 1989 Crafoord Prize for his work.



All Wikipedia text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License

 
  Search Encyclopedia

Search over one million articles, find something about almost anything!
 
 
  
  Featured Article
Springs, New York

... with them, 51.2% are married couples living together, 8.9% have a female householder with no husband present, and 34.9% are non-families. 26.1% of all households are ...

 
 
 
This page was created in 22.4 ms