100 years of cosmic radiation

One of Hess' balloon rides in 1912

Victor Hess-Year 2012


Exactly one hundred years ago, the Austrian physicist Victor Franz Hess performed several balloon flights and measured that natural radioactivity increases with height. He discovered that particles from space are constantly hitting the earth: the cosmic radiation. Victor Hess received for this discovery the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1936.

To mark the 100th anniversary the following events are planned:

5. April 2012

As planned for the beginning of April, the LHC accelerator has gone into normal operation. It is now colliding particles at an energy of 8 TeV and enables the experiments to restart their data taking.

29. March 2012

On Monday, March 26th we visited the Austrian federal state of Burgenland for the first time with our Hands-on physics programme.

14. March 2012

The Large Hadron Collider will resume operation shortly, after its scheduled winter shutdown. The first Protons will be injected in mid-March, and collisions will take place in early April. The energy of the particle beams will reach a new record value. Their intensity will also be increased.

21. May 2012
Öffentlicher Vortrag auf der Woche der freien Bildung im Resselpark
31. May 2012
Eröffnung der HEPHY Wanderausstellung im Schloss Peuerbach (OÖ)
18. June 2012 - 20. June 2012
Aktionswoche für Schüler im Rahmen der teilchen.at Ausstellung
19. June 2012
Vortrag von Dr. Helmut Eberl im Rahmen unserer Wanderausstellung im Veranstaltungszentrum Melodium (Peuerbach, OÖ)
23. June 2012
Anmeldung über die Begabtenakademie NÖ