Search Result for "james alfred van allen":
Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

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);
[syn: Van Allen, James Alfred Van Allen]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

James Alfred Van Allen n 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) [syn: Van Allen, James Alfred Van Allen]