Any device in science is a window on to nature, and each new window contributes to the breadth of our view.
Cecil Frank Powell Quotes
The particular features of the photographic method of detecting atomic particles enabled us to establish the existence of transient forms of matter which had escaped recognition by other methods.
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| Birth: | 5th December, 1903 |
| Death: | 9th August, 1969 |
| Nationality: | British |
| Profession: | Physicist |
About
Cecil Frank Powell was born in Tonbridge, Kent, England. He was a British physicist, and Nobel Prize in Physics laureate for his development of the photographic method of studying nuclear processes and for the resulting discovery of the pion , a subatomic particle. After completing his bachelor's degree he worked at the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, under C.T.R. Wilson and Lord Rutherford, conducting research into condensation phenomena, and gaining his Ph.D. in Physics in 1927.
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