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

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James Van Allen

James Van Allen was an accomplished American physicist known for his contributions to space physics. His research on the Earth's magnetosphere in the 1940s and 1950s, particularly his discovery of the Van Allen radiation belts, made him a pioneer in the field. more

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