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2023-09-07 11:17:54

Project Gutenberg on Nostr: "I'm a kind of a hybrid between an engineer and a physicist and astronomer." James A. ...

"I'm a kind of a hybrid between an engineer and a physicist and astronomer."

James A. Van Allen was born #OTD in 1914.

The Van Allen radiation belts were named after him, following his discovery using Geiger–Müller tube instruments on the 1958 satellites (Explorer 1, Explorer 3, and Pioneer 3) during the International Geophysical Year. Van Allen led the scientific community in putting scientific research instruments on space satellites. via

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