What does C.F. in C.F. Powell stand for?
Cecil Frank
Charles Frederick
Christopher Francis
Calvin Floyd
Answer
The answer is Cecil Frank. C.F. Powell was a British physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1950 for his development of the photographic method of studying nuclear processes and for the discoveries he made with this method. Powell's method, known as the nuclear emulsion technique, involved using a photographic emulsion to record the tracks of charged particles emitted in nuclear reactions.
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