"As soon as we started looking at them, we saw the most remarkable situation. My first thought was, "Great guns! Something's gone wrong with the apparatus!" But then we got later North American tapes and everything seemed normal again."
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Physicists from the United StatesMembers of the American Philosophical SocietyPeople from IowaNational Medal of Science laureatesCrafoord Prize winners
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On the first results from Explorer I, Reach Into Space, Time, 1959-05-04.
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James Van Allen
James Van Allen (7 September 1914 – 9 August 2006) was a space scientist who was instrumental in the early space program of the United States.
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