Victor Hess

Victor Hess
Victor Hess
	Hess in 1936
Born	Victor Franz Hess; 24 June 1883; Deutschfeistritz, Duchy of Styria, Austria-Hungary
Died	17 December 1964 (aged 81); Mount Vernon, New York, US
Citizenship	Austria; United States (from 1944);
Alma mater	University of Graz; University of Vienna (Dr. phil.);
Known for	Discovery of cosmic rays
Spouses	; Marie Breisky (m. 1920; died 1955) ; Elizabeth Hoenke (m. 1955)
Awards	Ignaz Lieben Prize (1919); Nobel Prize in Physics (1936);
	Scientific career
Fields	Atmospheric physics; Radiophysics;
Institutions	Institute for Radium Research; University of Graz; United States Radium Corporation; United States Bureau of Mines; University of Innsbruck; Fordham University;
Academic advisors	Franz S. Exner; Leopold Pfaundler;

Victor Franz Hess (German: [ˈvɪktɔʁ ˈfʁants ˈhɛs]; 24 June 1883 – 17 December 1964) was an Austrian–American experimental physicist who shared the 1936 Nobel Prize in Physics with Carl David Anderson for his discovery of cosmic rays.