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What major celestial discovery did James Alfred Van Allen make?

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A graduate (PhD 1939) of and professor of physics (1951-85) at what is now the Univ. of Iowa, where he was an influential teacher, Van Allen discovered what are now known as the Van Allen radiation belts , regions of intense radiation surrounding the earth in space.

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