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It may well be said that the answer to the question: Of what do the cosmic rays in fact consist before they produce their familiar secondary radiation phenomena in the earth's atmosphere? can only be obtained from numerous measurements in the stratosphere.

Victor Francis Hess

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Victor Francis Hess
Age: 81 †
Born: 1883
Born: June 24
Died: 1964
Died: December 17
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