1903 - 1969
Cecil Frank Powell, FRS (5 December 1903 – 9 August 1969) was a British physicist, and Nobel Prize in Physics laureate for heading the team that developed the photographic method of studying nuclear processes and for the resulting discovery of the pion (pi-meson), a subatomic particle. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of C. F. Powell has received more than 126,197 page views. His biography is available in 67 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 65 in 2019). C. F. Powell is the 121st most popular physicist (down from 103rd in 2019), the 375th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 333rd in 2019) and the 22nd most popular British Physicist.
Powell was a member of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1972 to 1987. He is most famous for his concurring opinion in the landmark case, Brown v. Board of Education.
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Among physicists, C. F. Powell ranks 121 out of 717. Before him are Ernst Abbe, Aage Bohr, Auguste Piccard, Heinrich Rohrer, François Arago, and Walter Houser Brattain. After him are Pavel Cherenkov, Owen Chamberlain, Leo Szilard, Isidor Isaac Rabi, Rosalyn Sussman Yalow, and Arno Allan Penzias.
1840 - 1905
HPI: 66.92
Rank: 115
1922 - 2009
HPI: 66.81
Rank: 116
1884 - 1962
HPI: 66.79
Rank: 117
1933 - 2013
HPI: 66.73
Rank: 118
1786 - 1853
HPI: 66.65
Rank: 119
1902 - 1987
HPI: 66.61
Rank: 120
1903 - 1969
HPI: 66.61
Rank: 121
1904 - 1990
HPI: 66.52
Rank: 122
1920 - 2006
HPI: 66.47
Rank: 123
1898 - 1964
HPI: 66.33
Rank: 124
1898 - 1988
HPI: 66.32
Rank: 125
1921 - 2011
HPI: 66.22
Rank: 126
1933 - Present
HPI: 66.16
Rank: 127
Among people born in 1903, C. F. Powell ranks 22. Before him are Marguerite Yourcenar, Rudolf Abel, Andrey Kolmogorov, Yasujirō Ozu, Anaïs Nin, and Adolf Butenandt. After him are José Antonio Primo de Rivera, Nikolai Podgorny, Karl Hanke, Alec Douglas-Home, Jan Tinbergen, and Mustafa Barzani. Among people deceased in 1969, C. F. Powell ranks 21. Before him are Jack Kerouac, Saud of Saudi Arabia, Morihei Ueshiba, Jan Palach, Princess Alice of Battenberg, and Otto Dix. After him are Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg, Levi Eshkol, Dominique Pire, Arthur Friedenreich, Witold Gombrowicz, and Joseph P. Kennedy Sr..
1903 - 1987
HPI: 68.40
Rank: 16
1903 - 1971
HPI: 67.52
Rank: 17
1903 - 1987
HPI: 67.41
Rank: 18
1903 - 1963
HPI: 67.32
Rank: 19
1903 - 1977
HPI: 67.12
Rank: 20
1903 - 1995
HPI: 66.74
Rank: 21
1903 - 1969
HPI: 66.61
Rank: 22
1903 - 1936
HPI: 65.85
Rank: 23
1903 - 1983
HPI: 65.73
Rank: 24
1903 - 1945
HPI: 65.59
Rank: 25
1903 - 1995
HPI: 65.52
Rank: 26
1903 - 1994
HPI: 65.49
Rank: 27
1903 - 1979
HPI: 65.48
Rank: 28
1922 - 1969
HPI: 69.29
Rank: 15
1902 - 1969
HPI: 69.09
Rank: 16
1883 - 1969
HPI: 68.74
Rank: 17
1948 - 1969
HPI: 68.53
Rank: 18
1885 - 1969
HPI: 68.22
Rank: 19
1891 - 1969
HPI: 67.77
Rank: 20
1903 - 1969
HPI: 66.61
Rank: 21
1887 - 1969
HPI: 66.54
Rank: 22
1895 - 1969
HPI: 66.14
Rank: 23
1910 - 1969
HPI: 65.91
Rank: 24
1892 - 1969
HPI: 64.43
Rank: 25
1904 - 1969
HPI: 64.33
Rank: 26
1888 - 1969
HPI: 63.42
Rank: 27
Among people born in United Kingdom, C. F. Powell ranks 375 out of 7,765. Before him are Ralph Fiennes (1962), D. H. Lawrence (1885), Harold Pinter (1930), Pelagius (360), Sam Neill (1947), and Anthony Burgess (1917). After him are Robert Walpole (1676), Charles Lyell (1797), Angela Lansbury (1925), Calico Jack (1682), Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg (1887), and Robert Burns (1759).
1962 - Present
HPI: 66.72
Rank: 369
1885 - 1930
HPI: 66.71
Rank: 370
1930 - 2008
HPI: 66.68
Rank: 371
360 - 420
HPI: 66.67
Rank: 372
1947 - Present
HPI: 66.63
Rank: 373
1917 - 1993
HPI: 66.63
Rank: 374
1903 - 1969
HPI: 66.61
Rank: 375
1676 - 1745
HPI: 66.60
Rank: 376
1797 - 1875
HPI: 66.60
Rank: 377
1925 - 2022
HPI: 66.60
Rank: 378
1682 - 1720
HPI: 66.60
Rank: 379
1887 - 1969
HPI: 66.54
Rank: 380
1759 - 1796
HPI: 66.52
Rank: 381
Among physicists born in United Kingdom, C. F. Powell ranks 22. Before him are Owen Willans Richardson (1879), Peter Higgs (1929), William Henry Bragg (1862), Henry Moseley (1887), Edward Victor Appleton (1892), and George Paget Thomson (1892). After him are Charles Glover Barkla (1877), William Shockley (1910), David Brewster (1781), Charles Wheatstone (1802), Andrew Huxley (1917), and John Kendrew (1917).
1879 - 1959
HPI: 69.23
Rank: 16
1929 - Present
HPI: 68.66
Rank: 17
1862 - 1942
HPI: 68.25
Rank: 18
1887 - 1915
HPI: 67.42
Rank: 19
1892 - 1965
HPI: 67.00
Rank: 20
1892 - 1975
HPI: 66.93
Rank: 21
1903 - 1969
HPI: 66.61
Rank: 22
1877 - 1944
HPI: 66.03
Rank: 23
1910 - 1989
HPI: 65.24
Rank: 24
1781 - 1868
HPI: 62.17
Rank: 25
1802 - 1875
HPI: 62.04
Rank: 26
1917 - 2012
HPI: 61.98
Rank: 27
1917 - 1997
HPI: 61.96
Rank: 28