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Cecil Frank Powell, FRS (5 December 1903 – 9 August 1969) was a British physicist, and Nobel Prize in Physics laureate 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.
Cecil Frank Powell (5 décembre 1903 à Tonbridge, Angleterre – 9 août 1969 à Milan, Italie) est un physicien britannique. Il est lauréat du prix Nobel de physique de 1950 « pour ses travaux sur les méthodes photographiques servant à l'étude des processus nucléaires, ainsi que pour sa découverte du pion [ 1 ] » .
Powell was Director of a European expedition for making high-altitude balloon flights in Sardinia (1952) and in the Po Valley (1954, 1955, and 1957). His first researches at the Cavendish Laboratory concerned condensation phenomena and it led indirectly to an explanation of the anomalously high rate of discharge of steam through nozzles.
5 août 2024 · Cecil Frank Powell was a British physicist and winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1950 for his development of the photographic method of studying nuclear processes and for the resulting discovery of the pion (pi-meson), a heavy subatomic particle.
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1950. Born: 5 December 1903, Tonbridge, United Kingdom. Died: 9 August 1969, Italy. Affiliation at the time of the award: Bristol University, Bristol, United Kingdom.
Cecil Frank Powell est né le 5 décembre 1903 à Tonbridge (Kent, Grande-Bretagne), dans une famille d'armuriers. Il fit des études à l'université de Cambridge, où il soutint sa thèse en 1927, dans le laboratoire Cavendish, sous la direction de Charles Wilson et d' Ernest Rutherford .
Cecil Frank Powell. Nobel Prize for Physics 1950 "for his development of the photographic method of studying nuclear processes and his discoveries regarding mesons made with this method". Early encounter with the cloud chamber. Cecil Powell was born in 1903 at Tonbridge, Kent.