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Victor Francis Hess

Austrian physicist and nobel prize laureate (1883-1964).

Born June 24th, 1883 in Deutschfeistritz. [ref]

Died December 17th, 1964 at 81 years old in Mount Vernon. [ref]

Occupations
physicist, professor

It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time. Samuel Johnson