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“I was a kind of a one-man army. I could solder circuits together, I could turn out things on the lathe, I could work with rockets and balloons. I'm a kind of a hybrid between an engineer and a physicist and astronomer.”

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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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