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  • Today, the person largely credited with the discovery of cosmic rays is the Austrian physicist Victor Hess.

    Technology Review RSS Feeds 2010

  • The Austrian physicist Victor Hess received the Nobel Prize for the discovery cosmic rays but a new translation of the work of an obscure Italian scientist indicates that he wasn't alone in this discovery.

    Technology Review RSS Feeds 2010

  • Today, the person largely credited with the discovery of cosmic rays is the Austrian physicist Victor Hess.

    Technology Review RSS Feeds 2010

  • The Viennese physicist Victor Hess wanted to know why an instrument used to measure radiation, called a gold-leaf electroscope, would slowly discharge even when there was no obvious source of radiation nearby.

    Space News From SpaceDaily.Com 2009

  • In 1912, Victor Hess confirmed that a steady stream of energetic cosmic rays bombard the top of Earth's atmosphere.

    Reasons To Believe - 2009

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