van allen

NOUN /væn_'ælən/
9 LETTERS · STARTS WITH V

van allen is a valid 9-letter word worth 11 points in Scrabble and 16 points in Words with Friends.

SCRABBLE WORDS WITH FRIENDS
V4A1N1A1L1L1E1N1
4 + 1 + 1 + 0 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 =11 PTS
DOUBLE WORD → 22TRIPLE WORD → 33
MEANING

What does van allen mean?

NOUN · 1 SENSE
1

United States physicist who discovered two belts of charged particles from the solar wind trapped by the Earth's magnetic field (born in 1914).