Editing C. F. Powell (section)

== Death ==
[[File:C.F.Powell - Bench & Plaque.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Memorial bench]] dedicated to Powell outside the Capanna Vittoria restaurant, on the Alpe Giumello, in [[Casargo]], [[Italy]].]]
Powell died while on holiday with his wife in the [[Valsassina]] region of Italy, lodging in a house in Sanico, in the [[Province of Lecco]].<ref name="Valsassina News 26 May 2013">{{Cite web|author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date=26 May 2013 |title=Giumello. La storia che non t'aspetti il Premio Nobel che amava la Valsassina |trans-title=Giumello. The surprising story of the Nobel Prize winner that loved Valsassina |website=valsassinanews.com |publisher=Valsassina News |location=Valsassina |language=it |url=https://www.valsassinanews.com/2013/05/26/giumellola-storia-che-non-taspetti-il-premio-nobel-che-amava-la-valsassina/ |access-date=14 August 2021 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210814070308/https://www.valsassinanews.com/2013/05/26/giumellola-storia-che-non-taspetti-il-premio-nobel-che-amava-la-valsassina/ |archive-date=14 August 2021}}</ref> On 9 August 1969, near the end of a walk in the foothills of the [[Alps]], he suffered a [[Myocardial infarction|heart attack]].<ref name="Valsassina News 26 May 2013" /><ref name="Vegni 2006">{{Cite book|last1=Vegni |first1=Guido |editor1-last=Redondi |editor1-first=Pietro |editor1-link=Pietro Redondi |editor2-last=Sironi |editor2-first=Giorgio |editor3-last=Tucci |editor3-first=Pasquale |editor4-last=Vegni |editor4-first=Guido |display-editors=1 |others=[[Italian Physical Society|Società Italiana di Fisica]] |year=2006 |title=The Scientific Legacy of Beppo Occhialini |chapter=Giuseppe Occhialini in Milan in the sixties and beyond: His legacy for particle physics and his influence on young researchers and students |publisher=[[Springer Science+Business Media|Springer]] |page=124 |location=Bologna |language=en |isbn=978-3-540-37353-7 |lccn=2006933051 |oclc=875693069}}</ref> Giuseppe Occhialini had a wooden bench built with Powell's name carved into a commemorative plaque, and then transported it to [[Premana]], a village in the mountains above [[Lake Como]].<ref name="Vegni 2006" /> It was installed on the path where he died, outside the Rifugio Capanna Vittoria (now the Capanna Vittoria restaurant), on the Alpe Giumello, in [[Casargo]].<ref name="Valsassina News 26 May 2013" /> Occhialini's reason was, "...if that bench had already been there, Powell would probably have stopped to rest there".<ref name="Vegni 2006" />