First Person to Introduce Magnetic Mirroring

[golfingboy07]

Just wondered who (and the paper name) was the first person to introduce the idea of magnetic mirroring in the radiation belts

Thanks

 

[Astronuc]

Possibly James A. Van Allen or one of his co-workers who discovered the radiation belts surrounding the earth.

http://farside.ph.utexas.edu/teaching/plasma/lectures/node21.html - magnetic mirror principles
http://farside.ph.utexas.edu/teaching/plasma/lectures/node22.html - the Van Allen radiation belts

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

I'll have to check in my plasma physics books to see if there are earlier references to magnetic mirrors.