Editing C. F. Powell (section)

{{Short description|English nuclear physicist (1903–1969)}}
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{{Infobox scientist
| name              = C. F. Powell
| honorific_suffix  = {{Post-nominals|FRS|size=100%}}
| image             = Cecil Powell.jpg
| caption           = Powell in 1950
| birth_name        = Cecil Frank Powell
| birth_date        = {{Birth date|1903|12|05|df=yes}}
| birth_place       = [[Tonbridge]], [[Kent]], England
| death_date        = {{Death date and age|1969|08|09|1903|12|05|df=yes}}
| death_place       = [[Casargo]], [[Lombardy]], Italy
| alma_mater        = {{Plain list|
* [[Sidney Sussex College]]
* [[Cavendish Laboratory]] ([[PhD]], 1929)
}}
| known_for         = Discovering the [[pion]] (1947)
| spouse            = {{Marriage|Isobel Artner|1932}}<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1950/powell/biographical/ | title=The Nobel Prize in Physics 1950 }}</ref>
| children          = 2
| awards            = {{Plain list|
* [[Fellow of the Royal Society|FRS]] (1949)<ref name="frs">{{Cite journal | last1 = Frank | first1 = F. C. | last2 = Perkins | first2 = D. H. | doi = 10.1098/rsbm.1971.0021 | title = Cecil Frank Powell 1903-1969 | journal = [[Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society]] | volume = 17 | pages = 541–563 | year = 1971 | doi-access = free }}</ref>
* [[Hughes Medal]] (1949)
* [[Nobel Prize in Physics]] (1950)
* [[Royal Medal]] (1961)
* {{No wrap|[[Lomonosov Gold Medal]] (1967)}}
}}
| fields            = [[Nuclear physics]]
| work_institutions = [[University of Bristol]] (1928–1969)
| doctoral_advisors = {{Plain list|
* [[Ernest Rutherford]]
* [[C. T. R. Wilson]]
}}
| notable_students = [[Peter Fowler (physicist)|Peter Fowler]]
}}

'''Cecil Frank Powell''' (5 December 1903 – 9 August 1969) was an English [[nuclear 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), a [[subatomic particle]].<ref name="physicstodayobit">{{Cite journal | last1 = Camerini | first1 = U. | title = Cecil Powell, Cosmic-Ray Physicist, Dies in Italy | doi = 10.1063/1.3035243 | journal = Physics Today | volume = 22 | issue = 11 | pages = 107–109 | year = 1969 |bibcode = 1969PhT....22k.107C | doi-access = free }}</ref>