C. F. Powell
British physicist
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Updated 2026-05-29
British physicist who won the 1950 Nobel Prize for developing a photographic technique to track nuclear particles and discovering the pion. His method became the gold standard for particle physics research.
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Cecil Frank Powell 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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