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Van Allen and IGY ties illuminate Iowa physicist's moon quest
James Van Allen and Abigail Van Allen married in 1945 and later headed the University of Iowa Physics Department. The article recounts their role in the International Geophysical Year and the 1958 Explorer missions, detailing Van Allen's balloon rocket experiments or rockoons, the IGY planning, and Iowa contributions including a Geiger counter and cosmic dust instruments aboard Explorer 1.
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Ames van Allen
Abigail
Baltimore
Johns Hopkins University
van Allens
Southampton
Long Island
Washington, D.C
van Allen
University of Iowa
Mount Pleasant
Iowa Wesleyan
Mount Holyoke
South Hadley
Mass
United States
Sydney Chapman
England
Silver Springs
International Geophysical Year
Earth
International Council of Scientific Unions
IGU
Leslie Meredith
Lee Blodgett
Coast Guard
Eastwind
Baffin Bay
Greenland
Sputnik 2
Laika
Explorer
Iowa
Gazette
James van Allen
America
Cedar Rapids
White House
Dwight D. Eisenhower
William H. Pickering
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Pasadena
Calif
Wernher von Braun