File:Hess & co 1912.jpg
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| Artist |
Rita Greer |
| Object type | painting |
| Description |
English: Victor Hess and two colleagues made a perilous ascent in a balloon from Austria in August 1912. They made the remarkable discovery of the cosmic radiation. There is no colour photograph of this event. |
| Date | 10 December 2011 |
| Medium | oil on board |
| Collection | Private collection Sir Arnold Wolfendale FRS |
| Source/Photographer | The original is an oil painting on board by Rita Greer, history painter, 2011. This was digitized by Rita and sent via email to the Department of Engineering Science, Oxford University, where it was subsequently uploaded to Wikimedia. |
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Copyleft: This work of art is free; you can redistribute it and/or modify it according to terms of the Free Art License. You will find a specimen of this license on the Copyleft Attitude site as well as on other sites. |
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