James Van Allen : the first eight billion miles / Abigail Foerstner.

Author
Foerstner, Abigail, 1949- [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2007], ©2007.
Description
xx, 322 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

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    "Astrophysicist and space pioneer James Van Allen (1914-2006), for whom the Van Allen radiation belts were named, was among the principal scientific investigators for twenty-four space missions, including Explorer 1 in 1958, the first successful U.S. satellite. Now Abigail Foerstner blends space science drama, military agendas, cold war politics, and the events of Van Allen's lengthy career to create the first biography of this highly influential physicist." "Drawing on Van Allen's correspondence and publications, years of interviews with him as well as with more than a hundred other scientists, and declassified documents from such archives as the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the Kennedy Space Center, and the Applied Physics Laboratory, Foerstner describes Van Allen's life from his Iowa childhood to his first experiments at White Sands to the years of Explorer 1 until his death in 2006."--BOOK JACKET.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (p. [295]-306) and index.
    ISBN
    • 9780877459996 (cloth : alk. paper)
    • 0877459991 (cloth : alk. paper)
    LCCN
    2007008870
    OCLC
    85783398
    Other standard number
    • 99818573043
    RCP
    C - S
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