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The Discovery: Victor F. Hess and the Balloon Ascents

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The study of the causes of air ionization had reached a state of total uncertainty, when the Austrian physicist Victor Hess became interested in the problem and started a series of balloon ascents that culminated in a memorable flight in August 1912, which convinced him that the origin of a part of the radiation was extraterrestrial.

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    Quoted in the funeral commemoration of Pacini by Prof. Rizzo, University of Napoli, in Bari in 1935 and reproduced in ([23] see also [24]).

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Bertolotti, M. (2013). The Discovery: Victor F. Hess and the Balloon Ascents. In: Celestial Messengers. Astronomers' Universe. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-28371-0_2

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