Victor Francis Hess

Victor Francis Hess
Hess in 1936
Born
Victor Franz Hess

(1883-06-24)24 June 1883
Waldstein Castle, Peggau, Styria, Austria-Hungary
Died17 December 1964(1964-12-17) (aged 81)
Mount Vernon, New York, U.S.
CitizenshipAustria
United States (1944–1964)
Alma materUniversity of Graz
University of Vienna (PhD)
Known forDiscovery of cosmic rays
Spouses
Marie Bertha Warner Breisky
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(m. 1920; died 1955)​

Elizabeth M. Hoenke
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(m. 1955)​
AwardsLieben Prize (1919)
Nobel Prize in Physics (1936)
Scientific career
FieldsPhysics
Institutions

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]

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