Nobel Prize in Physics 1950
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Cecil Frank Powell
Prize share: 1/1
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1950 was awarded to Cecil Frank Powell "for his development of the photographic method of studying nuclear processes and his discoveries regarding mesons made with this method"
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