James Van Allen vs Van Allen

James Van Allen and Van Allen both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
James Van Allen	Yes	No	No	No
Van Allen	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, James Van Allen and Van Allen are synonyms defined as:

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

Other synonyms of James Van Allen include James Alfred Van Allen.

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