James Van Allen

The brewery will begin by launching only a single canned beer, aptly named the First Launch, after James Van Allen, a world-famous space scientist who taught at the University of Iowa. Subsequent to the release of the First Launch, four more Big Grove beers will hit the shelves, including West Main Wheat ...

This time, Green talks to NASA's Laurie Cantillo of the Science Division at NASA Headquarters about his own gravity assist, when as an aspiring student he was mentored by the famous scientist James Van Allen, for whom the Van Allen radiation belts are named. You can listen to the full podcast here, ...

Whitson even remembers renowned professor Dr. James Van Allen (the famous space scientist who discovered the Van Allen radiation belt) once scoffing at her astronaut aspirations. “I met him [a fellow Iowa Wesleyan College alum] as I was graduating from the college. He was building space hardware in ...

Astronaut Peggy Whitson and space scientist James Van Allen are among Iowa Wesleyan's most famous graduates. Vilsack said the University of Maryland's current president attended Wesleyan as a 15-year-old from South America who was just learning to speak English. “I'm here because I really believe ...

They are named for the late James Van Allen, head of the UI department of physics and astronomy, whose instruments aboard the Explorer satellites provided data about the belts. Miller, performing under the name DJ Spooky, will debut his “Explorer I Remix” at the Englert Theatre on Friday night, as part of ...

The University of Iowa Libraries commissioned Explorer I Remix in anticipation of the 60th anniversary of a satellite launched in 1958 that contained an instrument built at the university, which was used to discover Earth's radiation belts (known as the Van Allen belts in honor of UI scientist James Van Allen).

He started studying at the University of Minnesota in the US in 1956, where a chance encounter with Professor James Van Allen changed his life. The world-renowned academic saw something in the young student and invited him to his postgraduate program at the University of Iowa, where Krimigis also ...