The application of a strong magnetic field enables the measurement of the energy of the most penetrating particles to be carried out, and the method may be capable of still further extension and improvement.

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.