# Victor Francis Hess

> He went up in a balloon with an electroscope and proved that radiation was raining down from space, not rising from the ground — a finding that flipped early 20th-century physics and won him the Nobel.

*Austrian physicist and Nobel prize laureate (1883-1964)*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Scientist ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631))
- **Category:** Scientists
- **Country:** United States
- **Born:** 1883-06-24
- **Died:** 1964-12-17
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Victor Franz Hess was born in Austria on 24 June 1883. An experimental physicist, he made the ascent that would define his career: balloon flights carrying instruments that measured ionizing radiation at altitude. The readings climbed as he rose, showing the source was cosmic, not terrestrial. That work earned him a share of the 1936 Nobel Prize in Physics alongside Carl David Anderson. He later became an Austrian–American scientist and died on 17 December 1964.

## Fame
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## Topics
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