Victor Francis Hess
Also known as Victor Franz Hess, Victor Hess
Austrian physicist and Nobel prize laureate (1883-1964)
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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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1883 births1964 deaths20th-century American physicists20th-century Austrian physicistsAcademic staff of the University of GrazAcademic staff of the University of InnsbruckAmerican Nobel laureatesAustrian emigrants to the United StatesAustrian Nobel laureatesAustrian Roman CatholicsCosmic ray physicistsEmigrants from Austria after the Anschluss