On the Hafelekar at 2300 m above Innsbruck, the Austrian Nobel Prize winner Victor Franz Hess, the discoverer of cosmic radiation, operated the laboratory for ultra-radiation research in the 1930s, which was designated a historical memorial site in 2022 and has been open to visitors ever since. Emmerich Kneringer *) offers an excursion to this high mountain museum, gives a guided tour of the rooms, demonstrates experiments, explains historical measuring instruments and talks about the origin and the detection of cosmic rays.
*) Univ.-Prof. Dr. Emmerich Kneringer teaches at the Institute for Astro- and Particle Physics at the , University of Innsbruck
and conducts research at the ATLAS experiment at CERN, the European Center for Particle Physics in Switzerland.
Free of charge.
Ticket for the cablecar included. Thanks to Nordkettenbahnen for their support.
