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Measured atmospheric ionization during seven balloon ascents, found a strong increase at high altitude and concluded that penetrating radiation enters the atmosphere from above.
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The record is Hess's sole-author 1912 paper and its balloon-flight evidence. It preserves Pacini and other antecedents and does not assign modern particle identities, mechanisms or the whole later field of cosmic-ray physics to this experiment.
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Victor F. Hess
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Hess: penetrating radiation in seven balloon flights
Measured atmospheric ionization during seven balloon ascents, found a strong increase at high altitude and concluded that penetrating radiation enters the atmosphere from above.
Scientific scope
The record is Hess's sole-author 1912 paper and its balloon-flight evidence. It preserves Pacini and other antecedents and does not assign modern particle identities, mechanisms or the whole later field of cosmic-ray physics to this experiment.
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This is a source-linked WRS catalogue note. A full explanatory guide and independent scientific reconstruction have not been completed for this entry. Read the identified original work for its complete narrative and arguments.
People and systems
Victor F. Hess
The named authors contributed to this scoped work; individual effort shares and later applications are not assigned by the byline.