Obituary: James A. Van Allen
AUG 10, 2006
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.020342
The New York Times : James A. Van Allen, the physicist who made the first major scientific discovery of the early space age, the Earth-circling radiation belts that bear his name, and sent spacecraft instruments to observe the outer reaches of the solar system, died yesterday in Iowa City. He was 91.
© 2006 American Institute of Physics
