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)

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