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Seven balloon ascents showed a high-altitude increase in penetrating radiation, supporting incoming radiation 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.
Evidence
The linked sources identify this contribution and its scope. WRS has not independently reconstructed the scientific claims. 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.
Contributors
- Victor F. Hess · SCIENCE: Named source author of the scoped work; individual effort shares are not measured.
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