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Victor Francis Hess

1883 - 1964

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

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Victor Francis Hess is the 83rd most popular physicist (up from 85th in 2019), the 69th most popular biography from Austria (up from 81st in 2019) and the 6th most popular Austrian Physicist.

Victor Francis Hess is most famous for his discovery of cosmic rays.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Victor Francis Hess ranks 83 out of 851. Before him are James Chadwick, Hermann von Helmholtz, Christian Doppler, Ernst Mach, Manne Siegbahn, and Luis Walter Alvarez. After him are Gustaf Dalén, Allan MacLeod Cormack, Johannes Stark, Gustav Ludwig Hertz, Rudolf Clausius, and Robert Andrews Millikan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1883, Victor Francis Hess ranks 9. Before him are Khalil Gibran, Coco Chanel, John Maynard Keynes, Karl Jaspers, Anton Webern, and Walter Gropius. After him are Nikos Kazantzakis, Jaroslav Hašek, Joseph Schumpeter, Lev Kamenev, Norman Haworth, and Otto Heinrich Warburg. Among people deceased in 1964, Victor Francis Hess ranks 5. Before him are Jawaharlal Nehru, Leo Szilard, Douglas MacArthur, and Herbert Hoover. After him are Frans Eemil Sillanpää, Paul of Greece, Hans von Euler-Chelpin, James Franck, Alma Mahler, Rachel Carson, and Norbert Wiener.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Victor Francis Hess ranks 69 out of 1,424. Before him are Róbert Bárány (1876), Prince Louis of Battenberg (1854), Amon Göth (1908), Christian Doppler (1803), Oskar Kokoschka (1886), and Ernst Kaltenbrunner (1903). After him are Archduke Otto of Austria (1865), Martin Buber (1878), Richard Adolf Zsigmondy (1865), Kurt Waldheim (1918), Anna Freud (1895), and Fritz Pregl (1869).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Austria

Among physicists born in Austria, Victor Francis Hess ranks 6. Before him are Erwin Schrödinger (1887), Lise Meitner (1878), Wolfgang Pauli (1900), Ludwig Boltzmann (1844), and Christian Doppler (1803). After him are Victor Weisskopf (1908), Anton Zeilinger (1945), Walter Kohn (1923), Otto Robert Frisch (1904), Fritjof Capra (1939), and Berta Karlik (1904).

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