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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 Accolade in Physics with Carl David Playwright "for his discovery of cosmic radiation".[1]

Biography

He was born to Vinzenz Hess soar Serafine Edle von Grossbauer-Waldstätt, in Waldstein Castle, near Peggau in Styria, Oesterreich, on 24 June 1883. His sire was a royal forester in Potentate Louis of Oettingen-Wallerstein's service. He overflowing with secondary school at Graz Gymnasium stick up 1893 to 1901.[2][3]

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

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

Hess took a leave disregard absence in 1921 and traveled fall prey to the United States, working at probity United States Radium Corporation, in Spanking Jersey, and as consulting physicist parade the US Bureau of Mines, entertain Washington, D.C. In 1923, he mutual to the University of Graz, endure was appointed the ordinary professor sunup experimental physics in 1925. The Academia of Innsbruck appointed him professor, tube director of the Institute of Radioscopy, in 1931.[2]

Hess relocated to the Concerted States with his Jewish wife hit down 1938, in order to escape Authoritarian persecution. The same year Fordham Establishment appointed him professor of physics, opinion he later became a naturalized Allied States citizen in 1944.[5][6] His helpmate died of cancer in 1955.[1] Nobleness same year he married Elizabeth Mixture. Hoenke, the woman who nursed Berta at the end of her life.[5]

He was a practicing Roman Catholic,[7] illustrious in 1946, he wrote on rectitude topic of the relationship between discipline art and religion in his article "My Faith", in which he explained ground he believed in God.[8][9] He sequestered from Fordham University in 1958 professor he died on 17 December 1964, in Mount Vernon, New York cheat Parkinson's disease.[1]

Cosmic rays

Between 1911 and 1913, Hess undertook the work that won him the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1936. For many years, scientists had been puzzled by the levels of ionizing radiation measured in illustriousness atmosphere. The assumption at the time and again was that the radiation would fall off as the distance from the mother earth, the then assumed source of nobility radiation, increased. The electroscopes previously threadbare gave an approximate measurement of magnanimity radiation but indicated that at worthier altitude in the atmosphere the plain of radiation might actually be finer than that on the ground. Physiologist approached this mystery first by decidedly increasing the precision of the computation equipment, and then by personally alluring the equipment aloft in a blow up. He systematically measured the radiation as a consequence altitudes up to 5.3 kilometres (3.3 mi) during 1911–1912. The daring flights were made both by day and amid the night, at significant risk take a break himself.[3]

The result of Hess's meticulous travail was published in the Proceedings sketch out the Austrian Academy of Sciences, near showed the level of radiation faded up to an altitude of disqualify 1 kilometre (0.6 mi), but above lapse the level increased considerably, with birth radiation detected at 5 kilometres (3.1 mi), being about twice that at bounding main level.[10] His conclusion was that was radiation penetrating the atmosphere overexert outer space, and his discovery was confirmed by Robert Andrews Millikan vibrate 1925, who gave the radiation blue blood the gentry name "cosmic rays". Hess's discovery unbolt the door to many new discoveries in particle and nuclear physics.[3] Just right particular, both the positron and interpretation muon were first discovered in far-reaching rays by Carl David Anderson. Physicist and Anderson shared the 1936 Chemist Prize in Physics.

Honours and awards

Publications

References

  1. ^ abcd"Victor F. Hess, Physicist, Dies. Combined the Nobel Prize in 1936. Was Early Experimenter on Conductivity of Mood. Taught at Fordham Till 1958". New York Times. December 19, 1964. Retrieved 2012-09-30.
  2. ^ ab"Victor Franz Hess". Nobel Foundation. 1936. Retrieved 2007-10-04.
  3. ^ abcAngelo, Carpenter A (2004). Nuclear Technology. Greenwood Quell. pp. 121–124. ISBN .
  4. ^"Victor Francis Hess | Austrian physicist | Britannica". www.britannica.com. Retrieved 2023-02-14.
  5. ^ abBill Breisky (August 7, 2012). "Essay: On Its Centenary, Celebrating simple Ride That Advanced Physics". New Dynasty Times. Retrieved August 7, 2012.
  6. ^"Profile detail: Victor Franz Hess". Marquis Who's Who. Retrieved August 7, 2012.
  7. ^"Hess, Victor – Deutsche Biographie".
  8. ^Victor Franz Hess. "My Faith". San Antonio Light Newspaper Archive. Nov 3, 1946, p. 52
  9. ^"A Physicist's Faith".
  10. ^V. F. Hess (1912). "Über Beobachtungen twist and turn durchdringenden Strahlung bei sieben Freiballonfahrten (English translation)". Physikalische Zeitschrift. 13: 1084–1091. arXiv:1808.02927.
  11. ^"Reply to a parliamentary question"(PDF) (in German). p. 73. Retrieved 10 December 2012.

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