Victor Franz Hess

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Noun1.Victor Franz Hess - United States physicist (born in Austria) who was a discoverer of cosmic radiation (1883-1964)
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An Austrian physicist, Victor Franz Hess (1883-1964), felt that the source must be somewhere in the ground, so in 1911 he took electroscopes up on balloon flights to get them out of range of the ground radiation.
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