JAMES ALFRED VAN ALLEN

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• JAMES ALFRED VAN ALLEN (noun)
  The noun JAMES ALFRED VAN ALLEN has 1 sense:

1. United States physicist who discovered two belts of charged particles from the solar wind trapped by the Earth's magnetic field (born in 1914)

  Familiarity information: JAMES ALFRED VAN ALLEN used as a noun is very rare.

• JAMES ALFRED VAN ALLEN (noun)

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Meaning:

United States physicist who discovered two belts of charged particles from the solar wind trapped by the Earth's magnetic field (born in 1914)

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Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

James Alfred Van Allen; Van Allen

Instance hypernyms:

physicist (a scientist trained in physics)