Victor Franz Hess (German: [ˈvɪktɔʁ ˈfʁants ˈhɛs]; 24 June 1883 – 17 December 1964) was an Austrian-American physicist who shared the 1936 Nobel Prize in Physics with Carl David Anderson "for his discovery of cosmic radiation".

[1] He was born to Vinzenz Hess and Serafine Edle von Grossbauer-Waldstätt, in Waldstein Castle, near Peggau in Styria, Austria, on 24 June 1883.

[2] Hess relocated to the United States with his Jewish wife in 1938, in order to escape Nazi persecution.

[5] He was a practicing Roman Catholic,[7] and in 1946, he wrote on the topic of the relationship between science and religion in his article "My Faith", in which he explained why he believed in God.

[8][9] He retired from Fordham University in 1958 and he died on 17 December 1964, in Mount Vernon, New York from Parkinson's disease.