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    Victor Franz Hess (German: [ˈvɪktoːɐ̯ fʁants ˈhɛs]; 24 June 1883 – 17 December 1964) was an Austrian-American physicist and Nobel laureate in Physics...
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    Rudolf Walter Richard Hess (Heß in German; 26 April 1894 – 17 August 1987) was a German politician and a leading member of the Nazi Party in Nazi Germany...
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    energy range of 0.03 to 100 TeV. The acronym was chosen in honour of Victor Hess, who was the first to observe cosmic rays. The name also emphasizes two...
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    radiation dosimeter. Electroscopes were used by the Austrian scientist Victor Hess in the discovery of cosmic rays. In 1731, Stephen Gray used a simple...
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  • videos. Hess sang lead with the Statesmen Quartet from 1948 until 1963. Their recordings included projects long-term with RCA Victor. In 1977-1978 Hess reunited...
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    the magnetosphere or the heliosphere. Cosmic rays were discovered by Victor Hess in 1912 in balloon experiments, for which he was awarded the 1936 Nobel...
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    There he undertook a major study of the radiation that the physicist Victor Hess had detected coming from outer space. Millikan proved that this radiation...
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    Fordham University (1958), where he studied under the Nobel laureate Victor Hess, the co-discoverer of cosmic rays. He also did post-doctoral research...
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  • soccer player Ursula Hess (born 1946), Swiss archer Ursula Hess (psychologist) (born 1960), German psychologist Victor Francis Hess (1883–1964), Austrian-American...
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    definitively recognized and proven to exist in 1912, as the scientist Victor Hess carried an electrometer to various altitudes in a free balloon flight...
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  • geological formations. Historical milestones in cosmic ray astronomy inclue Victor Hess's discovery of cosmic rays during balloon flights in 1912; the identification...
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    For this work, Anderson shared the 1936 Nobel Prize in Physics with Victor Hess. Fifty years later, Anderson acknowledged that his discovery was inspired...
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  • discovery. Tyson then proceeds to describe the discovery of cosmic rays by Victor Hess through high-altitude balloon trips, where radiation increased the farther...
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    cosmic ray experiments of Victor Hess, in 1913-14 Kolhörster ascended by balloon to an altitude of 9 km, where he confirmed Hess' result that the ionization...
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  • Clifford Hess, better known as Cliff Hess (June 19, 1894 – June 8, 1959) was an American songwriter, composer, lyricist, and pianist. He began his career...
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  • physicist Victor Francis Hess hypothesized that some of the ionization was caused by radiation from the sky. In order to defend this hypothesis, Hess designed...
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    desert. In 1933, shortly after the discovery of cosmic radiation by Victor Hess, Bruno Rossi conducted an experiment in the Institute of Physics in Florence...
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  • Nacho Libre (category Films directed by Jared Hess)
    a 2006 sports comedy film written by Jared Hess, Jerusha Hess, and Mike White, and directed by Jared Hess. It stars Jack Black as Ignacio, a Catholic...
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  • Ganja & Hess is a 1973 American black horror film written and directed by Bill Gunn and starring Marlene Clark and Duane Jones. The film follows the exploits...
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  • Bohr quoted him in his 1913 paper of the Bohr model of the atom. 1912 – Victor Hess discovers the existence of cosmic radiation. 1912 – Henri Poincaré publishes...
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