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A discovery of cosmic proportions

We took off at 6.12 a.m. from Aussig on the Elbe. We flew over the Saxony border by Peterswalde, Struppen near Pirna, Birchofswerda and Kottbus. The height of 5350 m was reached in the region of Schwielochsee. At 12.15 p.m. we landed near Pieskow, 50 km east of Berlin.
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Cosmic ray research began in 1912 when Victor Hess, of the Vienna University, and 2 assistants flew in a balloon on the 7th August, 1912, to an altitude of about 16,000 ft. They discovered evidence of a very penetrating radiation (cosmic rays) coming from outside our atmosphere. In 1936, Hess was awarded the Nobel prize for this discovery.
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Victor Francis Hess (24 June 1883 - 17 December 1964) was an Austrian-American physicist, and Nobel laureate in physics, who discovered cosmic rays. 
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Wulf (Victor Hess) electroscope improved version

TELESCOPES OF THE INVISIBLE



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