James Van Allen, physicist who found radiation belts OBITUARY From: International Herald Tribune | Date: August 11, 2006| Author: Walter Sullivan | . Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

International Herald Tribune

08-11-2006

James Van Allen, 91, 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 Wednesday in Iowa City, Iowa. The cause was heart failure, family members said. Van Allen was a longtime professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Iowa and, with the discove...

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