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Cecil F. Powell

Cecil F. Powell
British nuclear physicist Cecil F. Powell won the 1950 Nobel Prize in physics. He invented a photographic method for detecting subatomic particles, which led to his discovery of a new particle called the pi-meson, or pion.
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Meson; Boson; Powell, Cecil Frank
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