On what can we now place our hopes of solving the many riddles which still exist as to the origin and composition of cosmic rays? It must be emphasized here above all that to attain really decisive progress greater funds must be made available.

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.