| James Van Allen  AKA James Alfred Van Allen
Born: 7-Sep-1914
Birthplace: Mount Pleasant, IA
Died: 9-Aug-2006
Location of death: Iowa City, IA
Cause of death: unspecified
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Astronomer Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Discovered the Van Allen Belt Military service: US Navy (WWII) Father: Alfred Morris Van Allen (lawyer)
Mother: Alma Olney (teacher)
Brother: George (older, d. 1968)
Brother: Maurice (d. 1986)
Brother: William (d. 1971)
Wife: Abigail Fithian Halsey (m. 13-Oct-1945)
Daughter: Cynthia Van Allen Schaffner
Daughter: Margot Van Alen Cairns
Daughter: Sarah Van Allen Trimble
Son: Thomas Van Allen
Son: Peter Van Allen
High School: Mount Pleasant High School, Mount Pleasant, IA (1931)
University: BS, Iowa Wesleyan College (1935)
University: MS Physics, University of Iowa (1936)
University: PhD Nuclear Physics, University of Iowa (1939)
Scholar: Johns Hopkins University
Scholar: Princeton University (1953-54)
Professor: University of Iowa (1951-85)
Smithsonian Institution Regents' Fellow (1981)
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
American Astronautical Society Fellow
American Astronomical Society
American Geophysical Union President (1964-68)
American Philosophical Society 1961
American Physical Society
Carnegie Institution for Science Research Fellow (1939-41)
National Academy of Sciences 1959
National Space Society Board of Governors
Sigma Xi Scientific Research Society
Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society
Cosmos Club Award 1990
Royal Astronomical Society Gold Medal 1978 (with Lyman Spitzer, Jr.)
National Medal of Science 1987
Vannevar Bush Award 1991
Risk Factors: Smoking
Appears on the cover of:
Time, 4-May-1959, DETAILS: Space and the Radiation Belt
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