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Name: Victor Francis Hess
Birth Date: June 24, 1883
Death Date: December 18, 1964
Place of Birth: Schloss Waldstein, Austria
Place of Death: Mount Vernon, New York, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: physicist

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Biography of Victor Francis Hess
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The American physicist Victor Francis Hess (1883-1964) shared the Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery of cosmic rays. Victor Francis (originally Franz) Hess was born on June 24, 1883, at Schloss Waldstein, Styria. He studied physics at the...
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Biography of Victor Franz Hess
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Victor Franz Hess was born on June 24, 1883 in Austria. The son of a forest warden, he obtained a Ph.D. from the University of Graz in 1906 and was on the faculty of the Vienna Academy of Sciences. Hess lived in an exciting time for physicists. At the...


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Victor Francis Hess Information
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Victor Francis Hess (June 24, 1883 – December 17, 1964) was an Austrian-American physicist. For his discovery of cosmic rays he won the 1936 Nobel Prize in Physics, shared with Carl David...


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Transport Topics
Victor Hess: Consultant, trucker, investigator
10/06/2003: 316 words, approx. 1 pages
Victor Hess, 93, a transportation executive and consultant who retired in 1978 from the National Transportation Safety Board, died of cardiac arrest Sept. 17 at JFK Medical Center, Atlantis, Fla. A resident of Boynton Beach, Fla., he had lived in the Washington, D.C., area...
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Eva Hesse
10/01/2006: 644 words, approx. 2 pages
Eva Hesse THE JEWISH MUSEUM/THE DRAWING CENTER Eva Hesse has (quite rightfully) long been established as one of the most significant artists of her generation, and aside from calling attention to, say, less canonical works or emphasizing previously unplumbed historical correspondences, most...
 


 

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