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James Alfred Van Allen bol americký vedec skúmajúci vesmír a pracujúci na univerzite v štáte Iowa.

Po tom čo presadil, aby na družiciach Explorer 1 a Explorer 3 boli umiestnené Geigerov-Müllerove počítače na detekciu kozmického žiarenia, boli po ňom pomenované Van Allenove radiačné pásy objavené prostredníctvom týchto experimentov. V roku 1960 sa stal spoločne s ďalšími americkými vedcami osobnosťou roka časopisu Time. Wikipedia  

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“I was a kind of a one-man army. I could solder circuits together, I could turn out things on the lathe, I could work with rockets and balloons. I'm a kind of a hybrid between an engineer and a physicist and astronomer.”

On his early career, "Grounded in Space Science", Interview with Rushworth M. Kidder, The Christian Science Monitor, page 14, December 22, 1989.

“A man is a fabulous nuisance in space right now. He's not worth all the cost of putting him up there and keeping him comfortable and working.”

On men in space, Reach Into Space http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,892531,00.html, Time, 1959-05-04.

“All this is very good in theory, but in practice, you take a piece of iron, wind a wire around it, then plug the wire in. The core gets hot, the wires smoke, and the fuse blows. So you see, there are practical limitations to theory.”

Comments to an undergraduate physics class about transformers, Reach Into Space http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,892531,00.html, Time, 1959-05-04.