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1950 Nobel Prize in Physics

FEB 01, 1951
Powell honored at Stockholm ceremonies
Physics Today

Meson physics, which has figured in two other Nobel awards in past years, again in 1950 played a dominant role at Stockholm when Cecil F. Powell, 46‐year‐old Melville Wills Professor of Physics at Bristol University’s H. H. Wills Physical Laboratory, received the 1950 Nobel Prize in physics ($31,715) for his contributions to the knowledge of mesons.

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