C. F. Powell
Also known as Cecil Powell, Cecil Frank Powell, C F Powell, C.F. Powell
British physicist
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C. F. Powell was a British physicist who made important contributions to nuclear and particle physics research. His work matters because it advanced our understanding of fundamental particles and the forces that govern them.
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- The Iron Cage Revisited: Institutional Isomorphism and Collective Rationality in Organizational Fields
· 1983 · cited 30,482x
- Overview of the<i>CCP</i>4 suite and current developments
· 2011 · cited 11,874x
- Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger
· 2016 · cited 11,443x
- Minimal information for studies of extracellular vesicles 2018 (MISEV2018): a position statement of the International Society for Extracellular Vesicles and update of the MISEV2014 guidelines
· 2018 · cited 9,395x
- GW170817: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Neutron Star Inspiral
· 2017 · cited 8,086x
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Cecil Frank Powell (5 December 1903 – 9 August 1969) 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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1903 births1969 deaths20th-century British physicistsAcademics of the University of BristolAlumni of Sidney Sussex College, CambridgeAnti–nuclear weapons movementBritish experimental physicistsBritish fellows of the Royal SocietyBritish Nobel laureatesBritish particle physicistsCosmic ray physicistsNobel laureates in Physics