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A team of French high-school students sent a weather balloon into the upper atmosphere to recreate Viktor Hess's historical experiment that demonstrated the existence of ionizing radiation from the sky—later called cosmic radiation. This discovery earned him the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1936.
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It was a pleasure to work with the Paris center for cosmological physics.
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I hope to continue to build bridges between the world of research and the classroom.
M. Mohamed EL ABED
ESIEE Paris
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This page is a summary of: Cosmic balloons, Physics Education, October 2014, Institute of Physics Publishing,
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9120/49/6/706.
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