C. F. Powell

Cecil Powell
FRS
Cecil Powell FRS
	Powell in 1950
Born	Cecil Frank Powell; 5 December 1903; Tonbridge, England, UKGBI
Died	9 August 1969 (aged 65); Casargo, Lombardy, Italy
Education	The Judd School
Alma mater	Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge (BA); University of Cambridge (PhD);
Known for	Discovery of the pion
Spouse	Isobel Artner (m. 1932)
Children	2
Awards	Hughes Medal (1949); Nobel Prize in Physics (1950); Royal Medal (1961); Lomonosov Gold Medal (1967);
	Scientific career
Fields	Particle physics
Institutions	University of Bristol (1927–1969)
Doctoral advisors	Ernest Rutherford; C. T. R. Wilson;
Notable students	Peter Fowler; Michael W. Friedlander; M. G. K. Menon;

Cecil Frank Powell (5 December 1903 – 9 August 1969) 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).