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In which century did James Van Allen live?

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James Van Allen lived in the 20th century. He was born in 1914 and died in 2006. He was an American physicist and space scientist. He is best known for his work on the Van Allen radiation belts, which are two doughnut-shaped regions of charged particles that surround the Earth.
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