VAN ALLEN

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 I. (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)

Synonyms:

James Alfred Van Allen; Van Allen

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Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

physicist (a scientist trained in physics)

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