Cecil Frank Powell - Nobel Prize in Physics — 1950
photo Cecil Frank Powell

Cecil Frank Powell

Prize
Nobel Prize in Physics — 1950
for his development of the photographic method of studying nuclear processes and his discoveries regarding mesons made with this method
Citizenship
United Kingdom United Kingdom
Languages
English
date of birth
12/5/1903
place of birth
Tonbridge
date of death
8/9/1969
place of death
Lake Como
Lived
65 years
doctoral student
  • Mambillikalathil Govind Kumar Menon
  • Rosemary Fowler
educated at
  • University of Bristol
  • Sidney Sussex College
  • The Judd School
  • University of Cambridge
member of
  • Royal Society of London
  • German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
  • Russian Academy of Sciences
field of work
  • physics
occupation
  • physicist
  • university teacher
  • nuclear physicist
employer
  • University of Bristol
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