After teaching at the universities of Graz and Innsbruck, he relocated to the United States in 1938 and was appointed professor of physics at Fordham University that same year. He later became a naturalized U.S. citizen. By means of instruments carried aloft in balloons, Hess and others proved that radiation that ionizes the atmosphere is of cosmic origin. For this discovery of cosmic rays he won the 1936 Nobel Prize in Physics, shared with Carl David Anderson.
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Victor Francis Hess (http://www.nobel-winners.com/Physics/victor_francis_hess.html)
Hess was a demonstrator at the mineralogical institute of the University of Vienna in 1907 and 1908.
Hess returned to the University of Graz in 1923 and was made a full professor in 1925 and dean of the faculty in 1929.
Hess holds honorary degrees from the University of Vienna, Loyola University in Chicago and in New Orleans, Fordham University, and the University of Innsbruck.
Victor Francis Hess (June 24, 1883 – December 17, 1964) was an Austrian-American physicist.
After teaching at the universities of Graz and Innsbruck, he relocated to the United States in 1938 in order to escape Nazi persecution (his wife was Jewish) and was appointed professor of physics at Fordham University that same year.
By means of instruments carried aloft in balloons, Hess and others proved that radiation that ionizes the atmosphere is of cosmic origin.
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