{"id":30163,"date":"2006-08-10T10:00:32","date_gmt":"2006-08-10T10:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2006\/08\/10\/space-scientist-james-van-allen-19142006\/"},"modified":"2006-08-10T10:00:32","modified_gmt":"2006-08-10T10:00:32","slug":"space-scientist-james-van-allen-19142006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20060810-32\/?p=30163","title":{"rendered":"Space scientist James Van Allen (1914&#8211;2006)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Discoverer of the Van Allen radiation belts and one of the TIME magazine men of the year for 1960 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.press-citizen.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20060809\/NEWS01\/60809004\/1079\"> James Van Allen died yesterday<\/a>. (What a coincidence. What are the odds that the person to discover the Van Allen radiation belts would <i>also<\/i> be named Van Allen?)\n I never met the man, but I met his granddaughter. She has an amazing facility with languages and became fluent in Japanese after spending a year as an exchange student. Her Japanese was so good that at one point, a girl came up to her and asked, &#8220;How do you get your skin so pale?&#8221;, mistaking her for a native who had undergone some sort of bleaching process to get milky white skin.\n That&#8217;s when you know you&#8217;ve made it. When native speakers mistake you for one of their own who merely has had a lot of cosmetic surgery.<\/p>\n<p> (Whenever we tell this story, she tries to downplay the experience. &#8220;Yeah, well, the girl didn&#8217;t have her glasses on.&#8221; Like that changes the story in any significant way. Now, if the girl were deaf&#8230;) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Discoverer of the Van Allen radiation belts and one of the TIME magazine men of the year for 1960 James Van Allen died yesterday. (What a coincidence. What are the odds that the person to discover the Van Allen radiation belts would also be named Van Allen?) I never met the man, but I met [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-30163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Discoverer of the Van Allen radiation belts and one of the TIME magazine men of the year for 1960 James Van Allen died yesterday. (What a coincidence. What are the odds that the person to discover the Van Allen radiation belts would also be named Van Allen?) I never met the man, but I met [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}