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Victor Francis Hess

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Victor Francis Hess 1883-1964, American physicist, b. Austria, Ph.D. Univ. of Graz, 1906. After teaching at the universities of Graz and Innsbruck, he came to the United States in 1938 and was later naturalized. He became professor of physics at Fordham Univ. in 1938. By means of instruments carried aloft in balloons, Hess and others proved that radiation that ionizes the atmosphere is of cosmic origin. For this discovery of cosmic rays he shared with C. D. Anderson the 1936 Nobel Prize in Physics. He attributed (1939) a 27-day cycle of cosmic-ray intensity to the magnetic field of the sun and... Read more
Victor Francis Hess
Encyclopedia of World Biography Victor Francis Hess The Austrian-American physicist Victor Francis Hess (1883-1964) shared the Nobel ... his discovery of cosmic rays. Victor Francis (originally Franz) Hess was born on June 24, 1883, at ... Read more
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Britannica Concise Encyclopedia ... discovered through cosmic-ray collisions, leading to the rise of particle physics . Even powerful particle accelerator s cannot impart energy anywhere near that of the highest-energy cosmic rays. Victor Francis Hess .cosmic raycosmic raycosmic ray Read more

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