Victor Francis Hess
 Victor Franz Hess | |
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| Born | Victor Franz Hess 24 Juin 1883 Schloss Waldstein, Peggau, Austrick-Hungary |
| Dee'd | 17 December 1964 (aged 81) Mount Vernon, New York, USA |
| Naitionality | Austro-Hungarian, Austrick, Unitit States |
| Alma mater | Varsity o Graz |
| Kent for | Discovery o cosmic rays |
| Hauf-marrae(s) | Marie Bertha Warner Breisky (m. 1920–1955) Elizabeth M. Hoenke (m. 1955–1964) (1905-1973) |
| Awairds | Nobel Prize in Pheesics (1936) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Pheesics |
| Institutions | Varsity o Graz Austrick Academy o Sciences Varsity o Innsbruck Fordham Varsity |
Victor Franz Hess (24 Juin 1883 – 17 December 1964) wis an Austrick-American pheesicist, an Nobel laureate in pheesics, that discovered cosmic rays.[1]
References
[eedit | eedit soorce]- ↑ "Victor F. Hess, Physicist, Dies. Shared the Nobel Prize in 1936. Was Early Experimenter on Conductivity of Air. Taught at Fordham Till 1958". New York Times. 19 December 1964. Retrieved 30 September 2012.
... under his supervision, the United States Radium Corporation in New Jersey. ... Dr. Hess married Marie Bertha Warner Breisky in 1920; she died in 1955. ...
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