What university was James Van Allen associated with?
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University of Iowa
Answer
James Van Allen was associated with the University of Iowa as a professor from 1946 to 1959. He worked on the development of instruments for measuring cosmic rays, and in 1958 he discovered the Van Allen belts, two regions of charged particles trapped in Earth's magnetic field.
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