Top 4 Quotes & Sayings by Cecil Frank Powell

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Last updated on November 9, 2024.

Cecil Frank Powell, FRS was a British physicist, and Nobel Prize in Physics laureate 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.

British - Physicist | December 5, 1903 - August 9, 1969

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Any device in science is a window on to nature, and each new window contributes to the breadth of our view.

Cecil Frank Powell

How much more must this be so in my own case for I am conscious not only of the great names and achievements of those who have preceded me, but also of the living presence of many of my masters and teachers.

Cecil Frank Powell

Those placed in the position which I now occupy, commonly feel concern about their worthiness to receive the great honour which has been done them.

Cecil Frank Powell

The particular features of the photographic method of detecting atomic particles enabled us to establish the existence of transient forms of matter which had escaped recognition by other methods.

Cecil Frank Powell

Top 4 Quotes & Sayings by Cecil Frank Powell

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