Victor Francis Hess
Austrian physicist and Nobel prize laureate (1883-1964)
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Austrian-American physicist who discovered cosmic rays and split the 1936 Nobel Prize in Physics with Carl David Anderson. Basically proved the universe was throwing radiation at us the whole time.
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Victor Franz Hess was an Austrian–American experimental physicist who shared the 1936 Nobel Prize in Physics with Carl David Anderson for his discovery of cosmic rays.
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