C. F. Powell
British physicist (1903–1969) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Cecil Frank Powell, FRS[2] (5 December 1903 – 9 August 1969) was a British physicist, and Nobel Prize in Physics laureate for heading the team that developed the photographic method of studying nuclear processes and for the resulting discovery of the pion (pi-meson), a subatomic particle.[3]
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Born | Cecil Frank Powell (1903-12-05)5 December 1903 |
Died | 9 August 1969(1969-08-09) (aged 65) |
Nationality | English |
Citizenship | British |
Alma mater | University of Cambridge |
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Spouse | Isobel Artner[1] |
Awards | Nobel Prize in Physics (1950) Hughes Medal (1949) Fellow of the Royal Society (1949)[2] Royal Medal (1961) Lomonosov Gold Medal (1967) |
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Fields | Physics |
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