{"id":1467,"date":"2025-12-01T08:25:36","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T08:25:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.victorfhess.org\/?p=1467"},"modified":"2025-12-01T08:30:01","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T08:30:01","slug":"03-12-1929","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.victorfhess.org\/en\/03-12-1929\/","title":{"rendered":"12.03.1929"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"has-background has-medium-font-size\" style=\"background-color:#a7c9bf2e\">back to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.victorfhess.org\/forschung\/transkriptionen\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"25\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-neve-link-hover-color-color\">Year<\/mark><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-border-color has-neve-link-hover-color-border-color\" style=\"border-width:1px\"><tbody><tr><td><strong>Title<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Letter from Victor Franz Hess to Stefan Meyer<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Original<\/strong><\/td><td>\u00a9 Fordham University, New York City, NY USA<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Editing<\/strong><\/td><td>\u00a9Victor-Franz-Hess-Gesellschaft P\u00f6llau<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Content<\/strong><\/td><td>Hess informs Meyer that he has told Dieuaide that he will not be accepting the professorship at Union Medical College in Beijing. The reason for this is his poor health due to radiation burns caused by radium. However, the main reasons were the political situation in China, his wife and the climate in Beijing.<br>Furthermore, the position was in the medical field, and Hess had bad experiences with medical scientists; in addition, he would not have enough time to work on his studies.<br>Hess then reports on problems with measurements using the Benndorf-Harms condenser.<br>Hess writes that this winter was very cold and there was a very bad flu epidemic. He also reports that he is planning a solar observation expedition for July to measure UV rays.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Notes<\/strong><\/td><td> &#8211; Influenzierungskoeffizient: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zobodat.at\/pdf\/SBAWW_138_2a_0169-0221.pdf\">https:\/\/www.zobodat.at\/pdf\/SBAWW_138_2a_0169-0221.pdf<\/a> (retrieved 19.10.2025)<br> &#8211; Kondensator nach Harms (Sammlungsliste histor. Ger\u00e4te, Univ. Innsbruck): <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uibk.ac.at\/media\/filer_public\/33\/16\/3316aa07-82b7-4906-bd5a-7403bf4513fb\/museum-teil1_2025-compressed.pdf\">https:\/\/www.uibk.ac.at\/media\/filer_public\/33\/16\/3316aa07-82b7-4906-bd5a-7403bf4513fb\/museum-teil1_2025-compressed.pdf<\/a> (retrieved 19.10.2025)<br> &#8211; Union Medical College in Peking: at Tsinghua University, supported by the Rockefeller Foundation, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Peking_Union_Medical_College\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Peking_Union_Medical_College<\/a> (retrieved 18.10.2025)<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-neve-link-color-background-color has-background has-medium-font-size\">Original:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div data-wp-interactive=\"core\/file\" class=\"wp-block-file\"><object data-wp-bind--hidden=\"!state.hasPdfPreview\" hidden class=\"wp-block-file__embed\" data=\"https:\/\/www.victorfhess.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1929-03-12-Brief-VFH-an-Meyer-Orig.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:2000px\" aria-label=\"Embed of 1929-03-12 Brief VFH an Meyer - Orig.\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-2ba6ab30-526e-425d-9fa9-23ff87fd31f0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.victorfhess.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1929-03-12-Brief-VFH-an-Meyer-Orig.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">1929-03-12 Brief VFH an Meyer &#8211; Orig<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.victorfhess.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1929-03-12-Brief-VFH-an-Meyer-Orig.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-2ba6ab30-526e-425d-9fa9-23ff87fd31f0\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-neve-link-color-background-color has-background has-medium-font-size\">Transcription:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div data-wp-interactive=\"core\/file\" class=\"wp-block-file\"><object data-wp-bind--hidden=\"!state.hasPdfPreview\" hidden class=\"wp-block-file__embed\" data=\"https:\/\/www.victorfhess.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1929-03-12-Brief-VFH-an-Meyer-Trans.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:2000px\" aria-label=\"Embed of 1929-03-12 Brief VFH an Meyer - Trans.\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-3d13595a-12fa-4334-bb15-62e3a7e7e82f\" href=\"https:\/\/www.victorfhess.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1929-03-12-Brief-VFH-an-Meyer-Trans.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">1929-03-12 Brief VFH an Meyer &#8211; Trans<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.victorfhess.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1929-03-12-Brief-VFH-an-Meyer-Trans.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-3d13595a-12fa-4334-bb15-62e3a7e7e82f\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>back to Year Title Letter from Victor Franz Hess to Stefan Meyer Original \u00a9 Fordham University, New York City, NY USA Editing \u00a9Victor-Franz-Hess-Gesellschaft P\u00f6llau Content Hess informs Meyer that he has told Dieuaide that he will not be accepting the professorship at Union Medical College in Beijing. 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