Werner Kolhörster
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Werner Kolhörster
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Werner Heinrich Gustav Kolhörster was a German physicist and a pioneer of research into cosmic rays. Kolhörster was born in Schwiebus (Świebodzin), Brandenburg Province of Prussia. While attending the University of Halle, he studied physics under Friedrich Ernst Dorn. Repeating the cosmic ray experiments of Victor Hess, in 1913-14 Kolhörster ascended by balloon to an altitude of 9 km, where he confirmed Hess' result that the ionization rate from cosmic rays was greater at that altitude than at s
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German physicist
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