Yesterday’s passing of James Van Allen means that two of my childhood heroes of the 1950s have died during the current baseball season. In April, a plane crash killed former test pilot Scott Crossfield.
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Des Moines Register
“Physicist James Van Allen dies
Wed Aug 9, 2006 4:27 PM ET
CHICAGO (Reuters) - American physicist James Van Allen, who helped propel the United States into the space race and discovered the bands of radiation that surround the Earth that were later named for him, died on Wednesday, the University of Iowa said.
Van Allen, a longtime professor at the university, died from undisclosed causes. He was 91.”
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