
Also known as Victor Franz Hess, Victor Hess
Austrian physicist and Nobel prize laureate (1883-1964)
Victor Francis Hess was an Austrian physicist who won the Nobel Prize for discovering cosmic rays, high-energy particles that constantly bombard Earth from outer space. His discovery was important because it opened up a new field of physics and revealed that radiation reaches us from beyond our planet, fundamentally changing our understanding of the universe.
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Victor Franz Hess ( German: [ˈvɪktɔʁ ˈfʁants ˈhɛs]; 24 June 1883 – 17 December 1964) was an Austrian–American experimental physicist who shared the 1936 Nobel Prize in Physics with Carl David Anderson for his discovery of cosmic rays.
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