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1 online resource (xx, 322 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-306) and index. |
Contents |
Frontier roots -- Heartland boyhood -- The making of a scientist -- Physicists to the war effort -- Enter Abigail Fithian Halsey -- The dawn of space exploration -- The mighty little aerobee -- It's a rocket! It's a balloon! It's a rockoon! -- Sputnik and the space race -- Countdown to explorer I -- Celebrity scientist and the birth of NASA -- Discovery of the radiation belts -- Space shield for the Cold War -- Space as a cottage industry -- The mariners -- Pioneers to the outer planets -- Space politics -- Journey to the edge of the solar system. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Van Allen, James A. (James Alfred), 1914-2006.
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Van Allen, James A. (James Alfred), 1914-2006. |
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Van Allen, James A., 1914-2006 (Van Allen, James Alfred) |
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Astrophysicists -- Iowa -- Biography.
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Astrophysicists. |
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Iowa. |
Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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Electronic books.
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Biographies.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Foerstner, Abigail, 1949- James Van Allen. Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, ©2007 9780877459996 0877459991 (DLC) 2007008870 (OCoLC)85783398 |
ISBN |
9781587297205 (electronic book) |
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1587297205 (electronic book) |
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9780877459996 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0877459991 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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