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Victor Hess

Victor Francis Hess, Austrian-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1964)

Born
June 24, 1883
Died
December 17, 1964
Zodiac sign
Cancer
Birth year
1883

About Victor Hess

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. In particular, both the positron and the muon were first discovered in cosmic rays by Carl David Anderson. In 1910, Hess became an assistant to Stefan Meyer at the Institute for Radium Research.

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The world when Victor Hess was born

Victor Hess was born in 1883. The year snapshot below places that birthday in its cultural and historical setting: the music and films people were following, the headlines shaping public life, and the everyday prices families encountered.

Headlines and milestones

  • Top headlineBrooklyn Bridge opens after 14 years of construction
  • Technology milestoneFirst standardized time zones adopted
  • World population~1.43B

United States snapshot

  • U.S. leaderChester A. Arthur
  • U.S. population52.8M

1883 versus 2026

These figures put everyday life in Victor Hess's birth year beside the site's latest United States snapshot.

Measure18832026
Population52.8M341 million

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