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Hideki Yukawa
Powell, Cecil Frank
Powell, Cecil Frank (1903–69) English physicist. During the 1930s, he developed a technique to record
subatomic particles directly onto film. In 1947, he used this method at high altitude to investigate
cosmic radiation and discovered a new particle, the pion (pi
meson). This discovery supported the theory of nuclear structure proposed by Hideki
Yukawa. Powell subsequently discovered the antiparticle of the pion and the decay process of kaons (K mesons). He received the 1950 Nobel Prize in physics.
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List of Nobel Prize in physics winners.
News Wire article from: United Press International; 10/7/2003; 700+ words
; ...United Kingdom; Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton, Ireland. 1950 -- Cecil Frank Powell, United Kingdom. 1949 -- Hideki Yukawa, Japan. 1948 -- Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett, United Kingdom. 1947 -- Sir Edward Victor Appleton, United...
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Around Pasadena
Newspaper article from: Pasadena Star-News; 6/18/2007; 700+ words
; ...persons Ooguri earns Caltech honor PASADENA - Like many Japanese schoolchildren, Hirosi Ooguri read about the physicist Hideki Yukawa, who became Japan's first Nobel laureate in 1949 for predicting the existence of mesons, elementary particles that...
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Pugwash Conference invites PDF, CPM leaders to its Kochi conference
News Wire article from: The Hindustan Times; 4/15/2007; 517 words
; ...Bridgman, Leopold Infeld, Frederic Joliot-Curie, Herman Muller, Linus Pauling, Cecil Powell, Joseph Rotblat, and Hideki Yukawa. The manifesto called upon scientists of all political persuasions to assemble to discuss the threat posed to civilization...
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List of winners of the Nobel physics prize.
News Wire article from: United Press International; 10/8/2002; 700+ words
; ...United Kingdom; Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton, Ireland. 1950 -- Cecil Frank Powell, United Kingdom. 1949 -- Hideki Yukawa, Japan. 1948 -- Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett, United Kingdom. 1947 -- Sir Edward Victor Appleton, United...
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WINNERS OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN PHYSICS
News Wire article from: United Press International; 10/5/2004; 700+ words
; ...United Kingdom; Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton, Ireland. 1950 -- Cecil Frank Powell, United Kingdom. 1949 -- Hideki Yukawa, Japan. 1948 -- Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett, United Kingdom. 1947 -- Sir Edward Victor Appleton, United...
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A new scientific explorer
Newspaper article from: New Straits Times; 2/2/2003; 415 words
; ...Asian Nobel Laureates Abdus Salam, Subrahmanyam Chandrashekhar, C.N. Yang, T.D. Lee, Sin Itiro Tomonaga and Hideki Yukawa. In the latest issue (DecJan 03), the personalities discussed are Marconi and Alexander Graham Bell, founding...
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LIST OF WINNERS OF THE NOBEL PHYSICS PRIZE
News Wire article from: United Press International; 10/8/2002; 700+ words
; ...United Kingdom; Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton, Ireland. 1950 -- Cecil Frank Powell, United Kingdom. 1949 -- Hideki Yukawa, Japan. 1948 -- Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett, United Kingdom. 1947 -- Sir Edward Victor Appleton, United...
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Famously fleeting
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 3/28/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...Below them, on the rung just above obscurity, were composer Burt Bacharach, poet John Ciardi, and physicist Hideki Yukawa. Sic transit gloria mundi, as Thomas a Kempis famously said. Perhaps we should be scattering those famouslys a bit...
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Can Japan make Einsteins too? (Japan is spending more on basic science than ever before) (Science and Technology)
Magazine article from: The Economist (US); 8/11/1990; 700+ words
; ...American researchers. Nonsense. Before the second world war Japan had excellent researchers. In 1935 a theorist called Hideki Yukawa, working at the prestigious Riken Institute near Tokyo, proposed a theory about the forces in the atomic nucleus...
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Strange But True: Robbed of the most glittering prize of them all NOBEL LOSERS
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London; 4/25/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...ever lived. Pauli dismissed the idea as twaddle, and Stueckelberg dropped it - only to see the Japanese theorist Hideki Yukawa rediscover it, and walk away with the 1949 Nobel Prize for physics. Stueckelberg was not the first victim of Pauli...
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Hideki Yukawa
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Hideki Yukawa The Japanese physicist Hideki Yukawa (1907-1981) was one of the world's most highly-respected...contributions to science were in the field of particle physics. Hideki Yukawa was born in Tokyo on Jan. 23, 1907. His father was a professor...
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Yukawa, Hideki
Book article from: Chemistry: Foundations and Applications
Yukawa, Hideki JAPANESE PHYSICIST1907–1981...Bibliography Kemmer, N. (1983). "Hideki Yukawa." Biographical Memoirs of Fellows...Royal Society 27: 661–676. Yukawa, Hideki (1982). Tabibito: The Traveler...
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meson
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...mesons was first predicted in 1935 by Hideki Yukawa, who theorized that they could be...mass close to that predicted for the Yukawa particle. However, the behavior...meson. The particle predicted by Yukawa was the pion, which was not discovered...
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muon
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...year after the existence of a particle of about the same mass had been predicted by Hideki Yukawa. However, the muon's behavior did not conform to that of Yukawa's meson theory (which actually describes the pion , discovered more than 10 years...
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Powell, Cecil Frank
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...this mass had been predicted by the Japanese physicist Hideki Yukawa in 1935, to explain the short-range attractive forces...atomic nuclei and could not be the particle predicted by Yukawa. The pion discovered by Powell and his colleagues had...
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