Object Details
- Günther & Tegetmeyer
- Description
- Victor Franz Hess, an Austrian physicist, discovered cosmic rays in 1912, and won a Nobel Prize for this work in 1936. Moreover, working with Günther & Tegetmeyer, an instrument firm in Braunschweig, Hess developed instruments for capturing these rays. This cosmic ray meter, used by scientists at the Carnegie Institution of Washington, has a tag that reads "Günther & Tegetmeyer Braunschweig No - 5658."
- Hesswas a professor in Austria by 1931. However, his wife was Jewish, and in 1938 they immigrated to the United States to avoid persecution by the Nazis.
- Ref: R. G. A. Fricke and K. Schlegel, “100th anniversary of the discovery of cosmic radiation: the role of Günther and Tegetmeyer in the development of the necessary instrumentation,” History of Geo- and Space Sciences 3 (2012): 151-158.
- Credit Line
- Carnegie Institution of Washington
- ca. 1930
- ca 1930
- ID Number
- 1983.0039.12
- catalog number
- 1983.0039.12
- accession number
- 1983.0039
- Object Name
- cosmic-ray meter
- Measurements
- overall: 12 1/2 in x 13 1/2 in x 14 in; 31.75 cm x 34.29 cm x 35.56 cm
- place made
- Germany: Lower Saxony, Braunschweig
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- Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_1761075
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746b2-4612-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
