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Section 5.1 outlined how Viktor Hess discovered the cosmic radiation during a balloon flight in 1912. His evidence came from two electroscopes that measured the amount of ionization produced by ionizing radiation as it passed through the gas in a closed container.
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Beer, J., McCracken, K., von Steiger, R. (2012). Instrumental Measurements of the Cosmic Radiation. In: Cosmogenic Radionuclides. Physics of Earth and Space Environments. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-14651-0_6
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