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Today, the person largely credited with the discovery of cosmic rays is the Austrian physicist Victor Hess.
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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.
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Today, the person largely credited with the discovery of cosmic rays is the Austrian physicist Victor Hess.
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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.
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In 1912, Victor Hess confirmed that a steady stream of energetic cosmic rays bombard the top of Earth's atmosphere.
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