| Cecil Powell  AKA Cecil Frank Powell
Born: 5-Dec-1903
Birthplace: Tonbridge, Kent, England
Died: 9-Aug-1969
Location of death: Milan, Italy
Cause of death: unspecified
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Physicist Nationality: England
Executive summary: Discovered the pi-meson Discovered the pi-meson, or pion, predicted by Hideki Yukawa in 1935. Father: Frank Powell (gunsmith)
Wife: Isobel Therese Artner (m. 1932, two daughters)
High School: Judd School, Tonbridge, England
University: Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge (1925)
University: PhD, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge University
Professor: Physics, University of Bristol (1948-)
Nobel Prize for Physics 1950
Hughes Medal 1949
Royal Medal 1961
Royal Society 1949
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