Cosmic-Ray Meter
date: label: date made
content: ca. 1930
label: date made
content: ca 1930
name: label: maker
content: Günther & Tegetmeyer
notes: label: Description
content: 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."
label: Description
content: 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.
label: Description
content: 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,” <i>History of Geo- and Space Sciences</i> 3 (2012): 151-158.
place: label: place made
content: Germany: Lower Saxony, Braunschweig
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Carnegie Institution of Washington
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1983.0039.12
label: catalog number
content: 1983.0039.12
label: accession number
content: 1983.0039
objectType: label: Object Name
content: cosmic-ray meter
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 12 1/2 in x 13 1/2 in x 14 in; 31.75 cm x 34.29 cm x 35.56 cm