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C. F. Powell

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C. F. Powell

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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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Works
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Top works

  • The study of elementary particles by the photographic method
  • Nuclear physics in photographs
  • Vapor-plating

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Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
Brazil
Active from
1937-08-06
Active to
2000-09-26
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Discography

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5 total works indexed

  1. The Iron Cage Revisited: Institutional Isomorphism and Collective Rationality in Organizational Fields

    · 1983 · cited 31,554x

  2. Overview of the<i>CCP</i>4 suite and current developments

    · 2011 · cited 11,961x

  3. Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger

    · 2016 · cited 11,706x

  4. 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 9,664x

  5. GW170817: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Neutron Star Inspiral

    · 2017 · cited 8,264x

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Nobel Prize

  • The Nobel Prize in Physics1950

    “for his development of the photographic method of studying nuclear processes and his discoveries regarding mesons made with this method”

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Given name
Frank
Family name
Powell
Gender
male
Citizenship
United Kingdom
Place of birth
Tonbridge
Place of death
Lake Como
Occupation
nuclear physicist
Employer
University of Bristol
Languages spoken
English language
Doctoral advisor
Ralph H. Fowler
Field of work
physics
Image
Cecil Powell.jpg
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name in native language
C. F. Powell
date of birth
1903-12-05
date of death
1969-08-09
member of
Russian Academy of Sciences
nominated for
Nobel Prize in Physics
birth name
Cecil Frank Powell
Commons category
Cecil Frank Powell
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Dimitrij Dmitrijevič Kuruta
interested in
physics
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Encyclopedic overview

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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