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Victor Francis Hess (June 24, 1883 – December 17, 1964) was an Austrian-American physicist, and Nobel laureate in physics, who with Carl David Anderson discovered cosmic rays.
Hess was born to Vinzens Hess and Serafine Edle von Grossbauer-Waldstätt, in Waldstein Castle, near Peggau in Styria, Austria. His father was a royal forester in Prince Öttingen-Wallerstein's service. He attended secondary school at Graz Gymnasium from 1893 to 1901.
From 1901 to 1905 Hess was an undergraduate student at...
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