Cecil Frank Powell


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Noun1.Cecil Frank Powell - English physicist who discovered the pion (the first known meson) which is a subatomic particle involved in holding the nucleus together (1903-1969)
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Meanwhile, the English physicist Cecil Frank Powell (1903-1969) had worked out a new method of particle detection.
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