Hess, center, departing from Vienna about 1911, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1936. Germany Precisely where Victor Hess, his electroscopes and his hot-air balloon touched down is a mystery. What is known is that Hess and his crew of two landed shortly after noon, exactly 100 years ago, in...
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