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David
Physicist James Van Allen, designer of the experiments of the early American satellites Explorer 1 and Explorer 3 that discovered the Van Allen belts, died last night (August 8, 2006) at the age of ninety-one.
PhilCo126
Amazing news ... I wish his family strength in these difficult times!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Van_Allen
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