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C. F. Powell

Cecil Frank Powell

British physicist.

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Sex or Gender

Male

Place of Birth

Tonbridge

Place of Death

Lake Como

Country of Citizenship

United Kingdom

Date of Birth

12/5/1903

Date of Death

8/9/1969

Instance Of

Human

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Occupation

Physicist
University Teacher
Nuclear Physicist

Member Of

German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
Royal Society
Russian Academy of Sciences

Educated At

University of Cambridge
University of Bristol
Sidney Sussex College
The Judd School

Given Name

Cecil
Series Ordinal
:1
Frank
Series Ordinal
:2

Doctoral Advisor

Ernest Rutherford
 (1927)
Point in Time
: 1927
Ralph H. Fowler
 (1927)
Point in Time
: 1927
Charles Thomson Rees Wilson

Employer

University of Bristol

Family Name

Powell

Nominated For

Nobel Prize in Physics
 (1949)
Point in Time
: 1949
Nobel Prize in Physics
 (1950)
Point in Time
: 1950
Nobel Prize in Physics
 (1951)
Point in Time
: 1951

Field of Work

Physics

Birth Name

Cecil Frank Powell

Languages Spoken, Written or Signed

English

Spouse

Isobel Artner

Name in Native Language

C. F. Powell

Described by Source

Physicists: Biographical Dictionary
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:209
Pi-Vol-11-Issue-4-1953
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:4

Award Received

Hughes Medal
 (1949)
Point in Time
: 1949
Nobel Prize in Physics
 (1950)
Award Rationale
: for his development of the photographic method of studying nuclear processes and his discoveries regarding mesons made with this method
Award Rationale
: för hans utveckling av den fotografiska metoden för studiet av kärnprocesser och hans därvid gjorda upptäckter rörande mesonerna
Point in Time
: 1950
Prize Money
: 164,304 Swedish krona
Honorary Doctor of the University of Bordeaux
 (1952)
Point in Time
: 1952
Royal Society Bakerian Medal
 (1957)
Point in Time
: 1957
Royal Medal
 (1961)
Point in Time
: 1961
Lomonosov Gold Medal
 (1967)
Point in Time
: 1967
Guthrie Medal and Prize
 (1969)
Point in Time
: 1969
Fellow of the Royal Society
Royal Society Bakerian Medal

Interested In

Physics
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