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Victor Franz Hess was born on the 24th of June, 1883, in Waldstein Castle, near Peggau in Steiermark, Austria.
Victor Franz Hess was an Austrian-American physicist who shared the 1936 Nobel Prize in Physics with Carl David Anderson "for his discovery of cosmic radiation".

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Dates

June 24, 1883 – December 17, 1964

Authorized Form of Name

Hess, Victor Francis, 1883-1964

Additional Forms of Names

Hess, Victor Franz, 1883-1964

Abstract

Victor F. Hess was an astrophysicist at Innsbruck University and Fordham University. He was awarded the 1936 Nobel Prize in Physics "for his discovery of cosmic radiation."

Important Dates

June 24, 1883Birth, Peggau (Austria).

1910Obtained PhD in Physics, Technische Universität Graz (Graz University of Technology), Graz (Austria).

1910 – 1920Assistant Researcher, Institute of Radium Research, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften (Austrian Academy of Sciences), Vienna (Austria).

1912Wrote Die Wärmeproduktion des Radiums.

1916Wrote the Measurement of Gamma Rays.

1918Wrote the Counting of Alpha Particles Emitted from Radium.

1919Awarded Lieben Prize.

1919Wrote Konvektionserscheinungen in ionisierten Gasen-Ionenwind.

1919 – 1920Assistant Professor, Universität Wien (University of Vienna), Vienna (Austria).

1920 – 1938Associate Professor of

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Victor Franz Hess: Biography

24.6.1883Born the son of a forester at Waldstein Castle near Deutschfeistritz in Styria1901High school graduation with distinction, enrolled at the University of Graz1906Doctorate sub auspiciis Imperatoris in physics1906–1910Assistant professor at the 2nd Physical Institute of Vienna University1908–1920Docent of Medical Physics at the Vienna University of Veterinary Medicine1910Postdoctoral thesis at the 2nd Physical Institute of Vienna University1910–1920Research at the Vienna Institute for Radium Research1912Discovery of cosmic rays in a series of ascents in a balloon1915Voluntary head of the X-ray department of the Swedish Military Hospital in Vienna1920Associate Professor of Experimental Physics at the University of Graz1921Married Bertha Breisky (1868–1955)1921–1923Leave of absence from Graz University and position as chief physicist at the U.S. Radium Corporation in Orange, New Jersey, USA1923Returned to the University of Graz1931–1937Professor of Experimental Physi

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Victor Francis Hess

Austrian-American physicist (1883–1964)

Victor Franz Hess (German:[ˈvɪktɔʁˈfʁantsˈhɛs]; 24 June 1883 – 17 December 1964) was an Austrian-American physicist who shared the 1936 Nobel Prize in Physics with Carl David Anderson "for his discovery of cosmic radiation".^[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. His father was a royal forester in Prince Louis of Oettingen-Wallerstein's service. He attended secondary school at Graz Gymnasium from 1893 to 1901.^[2]^[3]

From 1901 to 1905, Hess was an undergraduate student at the University of Graz. In 1910, Hess received his PhD from the University of Vienna.^[4] He worked as Assistant under Stefan Meyer at the Institute for Radium Research, Austrian Academy of Sciences, from 1910 to 1920.

In 1920, he married Marie Bertha Warner Breisky.^[1]

Hess took a leave of absence in 1921 and traveled to the United States, working at the United Sta