1. Zitate
  2. Autoren
  3. James Van Allen

James Van Allen Zitate

James Alfred Van Allen war ein US-amerikanischer Astrophysiker und Raumfahrtpionier. Seine bekannteste Entdeckung war der Nachweis eines Strahlungsfeldes um die Erde, das hauptsächlich aus dem Sonnenwind und der kosmischen Strahlung besteht und nach ihm als Van-Allen-Gürtel benannt worden ist. Wikipedia  

✵ 7. September 1914 – 9. August 2006  •  Andere Namen James van Allen
James Van Allen Foto
James Van Allen: 6 Zitate0 Gefällt mir

James Van Allen: Zitate auf Englisch

“As soon as we started looking at them, we saw the most remarkable situation. My first thought was, "Great guns! Something's gone wrong with the apparatus!" But then we got later North American tapes and everything seemed normal again.”

Help us translate this quote

James Van Allen

On the first results from Explorer I, Reach Into Space http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,892531,00.html, Time, 1959-05-04.

“I was a kind of a one-man army. I could solder circuits together, I could turn out things on the lathe, I could work with rockets and balloons. I'm a kind of a hybrid between an engineer and a physicist and astronomer.”

Help us translate this quote

James Van Allen

On his early career, "Grounded in Space Science", Interview with Rushworth M. Kidder, The Christian Science Monitor, page 14, December 22, 1989.

“After a vast research program, which depended very heavily upon the use of a number of highspeed computers, I am pleased to offer you the result: "Space is that in which everything else is." In other words, "Space is the hole that we are in."”

Help us translate this quote

James Van Allen

On the definition of space: Reach Into Space http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,892531,00.html, Time, 1959-05-04.

“A man is a fabulous nuisance in space right now. He's not worth all the cost of putting him up there and keeping him comfortable and working.”

Help us translate this quote

James Van Allen

On men in space, Reach Into Space http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,892531,00.html, Time, 1959-05-04.

“All this is very good in theory, but in practice, you take a piece of iron, wind a wire around it, then plug the wire in. The core gets hot, the wires smoke, and the fuse blows. So you see, there are practical limitations to theory.”

Help us translate this quote

James Van Allen

Comments to an undergraduate physics class about transformers, Reach Into Space http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,892531,00.html, Time, 1959-05-04.

“Apparently, something happens on the sun. It sends out a burst of gases. The reservoirs above our earth shake like a bowl of jelly. The radiation droozles out at the ends and makes the auroral displays at the North and South Poles.”

Help us translate this quote

James Van Allen

On the aurora, Reach Into Space http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,892531,00.html, Time, 1959-05-04.

Ähnliche Autoren

Carl Sagan Foto
Carl Sagan10
US-amerikanischer Naturwissenschaftler und Fernsehmoderator None
Helen Rowland Foto
Helen Rowland1
US-amerikanische Journalistin None
Kurt Vonnegut Foto
Kurt Vonnegut4
US-amerikanischer Schriftsteller None
Isidor Isaac Rabi Foto
Isidor Isaac Rabi1
US-amerikanischer Physiker None
Allen Ginsberg Foto
Allen Ginsberg10
US-amerikanischer Dichter None
Truman Capote Foto
Truman Capote74
US-amerikanischer Schriftsteller None
Henry Miller Foto
Henry Miller11
US-amerikanischer Schriftsteller und Maler None
Eleanor Roosevelt Foto
Eleanor Roosevelt83
US-amerikanische Menschenrechtsaktivistin None
Norman Vincent Peale Foto
Norman Vincent Peale7
US-amerikanischer Pfarrer und Autor None
Malcolm X Foto
Malcolm X78
US-amerikanischer Führer der Bürgerrechtsbewegung None