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Victor Francis Hess

1883–1964

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Victor Francis Hess (1883–1964) was an Austrian-American physicist who discovered cosmic radiation through high-altitude balloon experiments, for which he won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1936. His work fundamentally changed our understanding of the universe's energetic particles and the nature of radiation.

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The Electrical Conductivity of the Atmosphere and Its Causes (1928)
Cosmic Radiation and Its Biological Effects (1949)
The Ionization of the Atmosphere and the Discovery of Cosmic Rays (1936 Nobel Lecture)
Über die Absorption der γ-Strahlen in der Atmosphäre (1912)
Beobachtungen der durchdringenden Strahlung bei sieben Freiballonfahrten (1912)

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