Cecil Frank Powell

Cecil Frank Powell

Infobox Scientist
name = Cecil Frank Powell


imagesize = 180px
birth_date = birth date|1903|12|5
birth_place = Tonbridge, Kent, UK
death_date = death date and age|1969|8|9|1903|12|5
death_place = Valsassina, Italy
nationality = United Kingdom
field = Physics
work_institutions = University of Cambridge
University of Bristol
alma_mater = University of Cambridge
doctoral_advisor = C. T. R. Wilson
Ernest Rutherford
doctoral_students =
known_for = photographic method
discovery of the pion
influences =
influenced =
prizes = Nobel Prize in Physics 1950
religion =
footnotes =

Cecil Frank Powell (December 5, 1903 – August 9, 1969) was a British physicist, and Nobel Prize in Physics laureate (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 while working at Bristol University. Powell's collaborators in the study, published in 1947, were Giuseppe Occhialini, H. Muirhead and young Brazilian physicist César Lattes. The pion proved to be the hypothetical particle proposed in 1935 by Yukawa Hideki of Japan in his theory of nuclear physics. Powell was also awarded the Lomonosov Gold Medal in 1967, and was a signatory to the Russell-Einstein Manifesto in 1955.

Powell was educated at the Judd School, Tonbridge and Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. The Judd School awards the Powell Physics and Mathematics Prize to an upper sixth form student every year in his honour. There is also a house named after him; its house colour is green.

He died in 1969 whilst out walking in the foothills of the Alps near the Valsassina region of Italy, where he had been staying with friends. A bench with commemorative plaque was erected near the site of his death and dedicated to his memory.

ee also

*The Judd School
*Giuseppe Occhialini
*César Lattes
*Yukawa Hideki
*Meson
*Pion
*Muon
*Lomonosov Gold Medal
*Russell-Einstein Manifesto

References

* Lattes, C. M. G., Muirhead, H., Occhialini, G. P. S. & Powell, C. F.: Processes Involving Charged Mesons. "Nature", 159, 694 - 697, (1947)

External links

*Nobelprize.org - [http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1950/powell-bio.html Biography of Powell at the Swedish academy site]
*American Institute of Physics - [http://photos.aip.org/history/Thumbnails/powell_cecil_a1.jpgPortrait photograph of Powell]
*Frankfurt Institute for Theoretical Physics - [http://th.physik.uni-frankfurt.de/~jr/gif/stamps/sm_powell.jpgPowell appears on a stamp in Grenada]


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