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Victor Franz Hess ( German: [ˈvɪktoːɐ̯ fʁants ˈhɛs]; 24 June 1883 – 17 December 1964) was an Austrian - American physicist, and Nobel laureate in physics, who discovered cosmic rays. [1] Biography. He was born to Vinzenz Hess and Serafine Edle von Grossbauer-Waldstätt, in Waldstein Castle, near Peggau in Styria, Austria, on 24 June 1883.
- Nobel Prize in Physics (1936)
- Discovery of cosmic rays
As well as the Nobel Prize for 1936, which he shared with C.D. Anderson, Hess has been awarded the Abbe Memorial Prize and the Abbe Medal of the Carl Zeiss Institute in Jena (1932); he was also Corresponding Member of the Academy of Sciences in Vienna.
Victor Francis Hess (born June 24, 1883, Waldstein, Styria, Austria—died Dec. 17, 1964, Mount Vernon, N.Y., U.S.) was an Austrian-born physicist who was a joint recipient, with Carl D. Anderson of the United States, of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1936 for his discovery of cosmic rays —high-energy radiation originating in outer space.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
In 1911 and 1912 Austrian physicist Victor Hess made a series of ascents in a hydrogen balloon to take measurements of radiation in the atmosphere. He was looking for the source of ionizing radiation that registered on an electroscope – the prevailing theory was that the radiation came from the rocks of the Earth.
Victor Franz Hess. The Nobel Prize in Physics 1936. Born: 24 June 1883, Peggau, Austria. Died: 17 December 1964, Mount Vernon, NY, USA. Affiliation at the time of the award: Innsbruck University, Innsbruck, Austria. Prize motivation: “for his discovery of cosmic radiation”. Prize share: 1/2.
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Victor Franz Hess (1883-1964) discovered cosmic rays in 1912. This launched him on a steep career, which also brought the young physicist to the University of Innsbruck. Here Hess founded the world’s first high-altitude laboratory for the study of cosmic radiation.
Oct 19, 2011 · Next August, Victor Hess will be remembered throughout the world as the scientific explorer who, 100 years earlier, made a series of historic flights—in what essentially was a flying basket—to demonstrate the existence of cosmic radiation.
