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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).
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science · British physicist (1903–1969) · physicist · university teacher · nuclear physicist · also Cecil Frank Powell, C. F. Powell, Cecil Powell, Powell
Born 5 December 1903 · Died 9 August 1969 · Q178103
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The International Inner Wheel Club of Lecco, in Lombardy, Northern Italy, erected a sign in memory of Powell, close to where he died, at the Capanna Vittoria restaurant, on the Alpe Giumello, in Casargo
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Published “Overview of the<i>CCP</i>4 suite and current developments” in Acta Crystallographica Section D Biological Crystallography — cited 11,975 times.
Published “The Iron Cage Revisited: Institutional Isomorphism and Collective Rationality in Organizational Fields” in American Sociological Review — cited 31,695 times.
Died 1969-08-09.
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Won Guthrie Medal and Prize (1969).
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Won Lomonosov Gold Medal (1967).
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Won Royal Medal (1961).
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Powell served on the Scientific Policy Committee of the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN)
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Won Royal Society Bakerian Medal (1957).
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Powell, also a member of the World Federation of Scientific Workers, added his signature to the Russell–Einstein Manifesto put forward by Bertrand Russell, Albert Einstein, and Joseph Rotblat, and was involved in prepara
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Awarded honorary doctor of the University of Bordeaux (1952).
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Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics — for his development of the photographic method of studying nuclear processes and his discoveries regarding mesons made with this method.
Awarded Nobel Prize in Physics (1950).
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Powell was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics "for his development of the photographic method of studying nuclear processes and his discoveries regarding mesons made with this method
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For heading the team that developed the photographic method of studying nuclear processes, and for the resulting discovery of the pion (pi-meson)
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Won Hughes Medal (1949).
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To the discovery of the pion (pi-meson), which proved to be the hypothetical particle proposed in 1935 by Hideki Yukawa in his theory of nuclear forces
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Bose and Chaudhuri (sic) had pointed it out that it is possible, in principle, to distinguish between the tracks of protons and mesons in an emulsion… They concluded that many of the charged particles arrested in their p
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Began applying this technique to the study of cosmic radiation, exposing photographic plates at high-altitude, at the tops of mountains and using specially designed balloons, collaborating in the study with Giuseppe Occh
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Took part in a Royal Society expedition to Montserrat in the West Indies as part of a study of a damaging earthquake swarm
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Powell married Isobel Therese Artner (1907–1995)
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Powell became a research assistant to Arthur Mannering Tyndall in the H
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With First Class Honours in the Natural Sciences Tripos
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Born 1903-12-05.
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