Hess

noun

1. English pianist (1890-1965)

• Syn: ↑Dame Myra Hess

• Instance Hypernyms: ↑pianist, ↑piano player

2. Swiss physiologist noted for studies of the brain (1881-1973)

• Syn: ↑Walter Hess, ↑Walter Rudolf Hess

• Instance Hypernyms: ↑physiologist

3. Nazi leader who in 1941 flew a solo flight to Scotland in an apparent attempt to negotiate a peace treaty with Great Britain but was imprisoned for life (1894-1987)

• Syn: ↑Rudolf Hess, ↑Walther Richard Rudolf Hess

• Instance Hypernyms: ↑Nazi, ↑German Nazi

4. United States physicist (born in Austria) who was a discoverer of cosmic radiation (1883-1964)

• Syn: ↑Victor Hess, ↑Victor Franz Hess

• Instance Hypernyms: ↑physicist

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/hes/, n.

1. Dame Myra, 1890-1965, English pianist.

2. Victor Francis, 1883-1964, U.S. physicist, born in Austria: Nobel prize 1936.

3. Walter Rudolf, 1881-1973, Swiss physiologist: Nobel prize for medicine 1949.

4. (Walther Richard) Rudolf /vahl"teuhrdd rddikh"ahrddt rddooh"dawlf/, born 1894, German official in the Nazi party.

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I [hes]

Dame Myra (1890 - 1965), English pianist. She was noted for her performances of the music of Schumann, Beethoven, Mozart, and Bach

II

(Walther Richard) Rudolf (1894 - 1987), German politician, deputy leader of the Nazi Party 1934 - 41. In 1941, secretly and on his own initiative, he parachuted into Scotland to negotiate peace with Britain. He was imprisoned for the duration of the war and, at the Nuremberg war trials, sentenced to life imprisonment in Spandau prison, Berlin, where he died

III

Victor Francis (1883 - 1964), U.S. physicist; born in Austria; born Victor Franz Hess. He showed that some ionizing radiation (later termed cosmic rays) was extraterrestrial in origin but did not come from the sun. Nobel Prize for Physics (1936, shared with C. D. Anderson)

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hess

Sc. f. hoase, hoarse a.