Giuseppe Occhialini

Giuseppe Occhialini
Giuseppe Occhialini
Born	Giuseppe Paolo Stanislao Occhialini; 5 December 1907; Fossombrone, Marche, ; Kingdom of Italy
Died	30 December 1993 (aged 86)
Alma mater	University of Florence
Known for	Discovery of the pion; Discovery of the positron;
Awards	Premio Presidente della Repubblica (1949); Wolf Prize in Physics (1979);
	Scientific career
Fields	Particle physics
Institutions	University of Cambridge; University of São Paulo; University of Bristol; University of Genoa; University of Milan;

Giuseppe Paolo Stanislao "Beppo" Occhialini (Italian: [dʒuˈzɛppe okkjaˈliːni]; 5 December 1907 – 30 December 1993) was an Italian experimental physicist who contributed to the discovery of the pion or pi-meson decay in 1947 with César Lattes and Cecil Powell, the latter winning the Nobel Prize in Physics for this work. At the time of this discovery, they were all working in the H. H. Wills Laboratory at the University of Bristol.