C. F. Powell | |
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Born | Cecil Frank Powell 5 December 1903 |
Died | 9 August 1969 | (aged 65)
Nationality | English |
Citizenship | British |
Alma mater | University of Cambridge |
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Spouse | Isobel Artner[2] |
Awards | Nobel Prize in Physics (1950) Hughes Medal (1949) Fellow of the Royal Society (1949)[1] Royal Medal (1961) Lomonosov Gold Medal (1967) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Physics |
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Cecil Frank Powell, FRS[1] (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]