Born: 1903-12-05 in Tonbridge, United Kingdom
Gender: male
Field: English nuclear physicist (1903–1969)
Cecil Frank Powell was an English nuclear 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), a subatomic particle.
Awarded on: 1950-11-10
"for his development of the photographic method of studying nuclear processes and his discoveries regarding mesons made with this method"
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