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Cecil Frank Powell Quotes
Those placed in the position which I now occupy, commonly feel concern about their worthiness to receive the great honour which has been done them.
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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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