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Author Foerstner, Abigail, 1949-

Title James Van Allen : the first eight billion miles / Abigail Foerstner.

Publication Info. Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2007]
©2007

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Description 1 online resource (xx, 322 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
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Bibliography 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.
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Subject Van Allen, James A. (James Alfred), 1914-2006.
Van Allen, James A. (James Alfred), 1914-2006.
Van Allen, James A., 1914-2006 (Van Allen, James Alfred)
Astrophysicists -- Iowa -- Biography.
Astrophysicists.
Iowa.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Electronic books.
Biographies.
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)
1587297205 (electronic book)
9780877459996 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
0877459991 (cloth ; alkaline paper)