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.

Hoenke the woman who nursed Berta at the end of her life. In 1920 he married Marie Bertha Warner Breisky. Cosmic rays

Between 1911 and 1913 Hess undertook the work that won him the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1936.

Victor Francis Hess (24 June 1883 – 17 December 1964) was an Austrian-American physicist and Nobel laureate in physics who discovered cosmic rays.