Victor Francis Hess

Victor Francis Hess
Hess in 1936
Born	Victor Franz Hess (1883-06-24)24 June 1883 Waldstein Castle, Peggau, Styria, Austria-Hungary (now Austria)
Died	17 December 1964(1964-12-17) (aged 81) Mount Vernon, New York, U.S.
Citizenship	Austria United States (1944–1964)
Alma mater	University of Graz University of Vienna (PhD)
Known for	Discovery of cosmic rays
Spouses	Marie Bertha Warner Breisky ​ ​ (m. 1920; died 1955)​ Elizabeth M. Hoenke ​ (m. 1955)​
Awards	Lieben Prize (1919) Nobel Prize in Physics (1936)
Scientific career
Fields	Physics
Institutions	University of Graz University of Innsbruck Fordham University
Academic advisors	Stefan Meyer

Victor Franz Hess (German: [ˈvɪktoːɐ̯ fʁants ˈhɛs]; 24 June 1883 – 17 December 1964) was an Austrian-American physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1936 for the discovery cosmic rays.^[1]