C. F. Powell

✶December 5, 1903

†August 9, 1969

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About their life

Cecil Frank Powell was a British experimental physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1950 for heading the team that developed the photographic method of studying nuclear processes, and for the resulting discovery of the pion (pi-meson).

British physicist (1903–1969)

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