| Victor Francis Hess  Born: 24-Jun-1883
Birthplace: Schloss Waldstein, Styria, Austria
Died: 17-Dec-1964
Location of death: Mount Vernon, NY
Cause of death: unspecified
Gender: Male
Religion: Roman Catholic
Race or Ethnicity: White
Occupation: Physicist Nationality: Austria
Executive summary: Proved cosmic origin of radiation Father: Vinzens Hess (forester)
Mother: Serafine Edle von Grossbauer-Waldstätt
University: University of Graz (1901-05)
University: PhD, University of Graz (1910)
Professor: University of Vienna (1910-20)
Professor: University of Graz (1920-31)
Professor: University of Innsbruck (1931-37)
Professor: Fordham University (1938-56)
Nobel Prize for Physics 1936 (with Carl David Anderson)
Pontifical Academy of Sciences
Naturalized US Citizen 1944
Author of books:
Elektrische Leitfähigkeit der Atmosphäre und ihre Ursachen (1926, physics)
Ionenbilanz der Atmosphäre (1933, physics)
Luftelektrizität (1928, physics, with H. Benndorf)
Requires Flash 7+ and Javascript.
Do you know something we don't?
Submit a correction or make a comment about this profile
Copyright ©2008 Soylent Communications
| 
