1903 - 1969
Cecil Frank Powell, FRS (5 December 1903 – 9 August 1969) was an English physicist, and Nobel Prize in Physics laureate for his development of 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 89,402 page views. His biography is available in 65 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 62 in 2019). C. F. Powell is the 103rd most popular physicist (down from 94th in 2019), the 334th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 255th in 2019) and the 18th 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 103 out of 721. Before him are Johann Jakob Balmer, Charles Glover Barkla, Anders Jonas Ångström, Hippolyte Fizeau, Pavel Cherenkov, and Joseph Henry. After him are Eugene Wigner, Clinton Davisson, Jean-Baptiste Biot, Manne Siegbahn, Ernest Lawrence, and Augustin-Jean Fresnel.
1825 - 1898
HPI: 75.17
Rank: 97
1877 - 1944
HPI: 75.13
Rank: 98
1814 - 1874
HPI: 75.11
Rank: 99
1819 - 1896
HPI: 75.05
Rank: 100
1904 - 1990
HPI: 75.02
Rank: 101
1797 - 1878
HPI: 74.95
Rank: 102
1903 - 1969
HPI: 74.93
Rank: 103
1902 - 1995
HPI: 74.92
Rank: 104
1881 - 1958
HPI: 74.91
Rank: 105
1774 - 1862
HPI: 74.80
Rank: 106
1886 - 1978
HPI: 74.79
Rank: 107
1901 - 1958
HPI: 74.73
Rank: 108
1788 - 1827
HPI: 74.71
Rank: 109
Among people born in 1903, C. F. Powell ranks 17. Before him are Habib Bourguiba, Marguerite Yourcenar, Andrey Kolmogorov, Galeazzo Ciano, Fernandel, and Yasujirō Ozu. After him are John Dillinger, Alec Douglas-Home, Jiro Horikoshi, Anaïs Nin, Rudolf Abel, and Jan Tinbergen. Among people deceased in 1969, C. F. Powell ranks 20. Before him are Otto Stern, Saud of Saudi Arabia, Otto Dix, Morihei Ueshiba, Jan Palach, and Brian Jones. After him are Sonja Henie, Princess Alice of Battenberg, Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg, Levi Eshkol, Arthur Friedenreich, and Witold Gombrowicz.
1903 - 2000
HPI: 75.94
Rank: 11
1903 - 1987
HPI: 75.82
Rank: 12
1903 - 1987
HPI: 75.38
Rank: 13
1903 - 1944
HPI: 75.22
Rank: 14
1903 - 1971
HPI: 75.13
Rank: 15
1903 - 1963
HPI: 75.08
Rank: 16
1903 - 1969
HPI: 74.93
Rank: 17
1903 - 1934
HPI: 74.90
Rank: 18
1903 - 1995
HPI: 74.65
Rank: 19
1903 - 1982
HPI: 74.59
Rank: 20
1903 - 1977
HPI: 74.58
Rank: 21
1903 - 1971
HPI: 74.14
Rank: 22
1903 - 1994
HPI: 74.11
Rank: 23
1888 - 1969
HPI: 76.83
Rank: 14
1902 - 1969
HPI: 76.67
Rank: 15
1891 - 1969
HPI: 76.41
Rank: 16
1883 - 1969
HPI: 76.27
Rank: 17
1948 - 1969
HPI: 76.00
Rank: 18
1942 - 1969
HPI: 75.95
Rank: 19
1903 - 1969
HPI: 74.93
Rank: 20
1912 - 1969
HPI: 74.91
Rank: 21
1885 - 1969
HPI: 74.45
Rank: 22
1887 - 1969
HPI: 74.39
Rank: 23
1895 - 1969
HPI: 74.00
Rank: 24
1892 - 1969
HPI: 73.51
Rank: 25
1904 - 1969
HPI: 72.48
Rank: 26
Among people born in United Kingdom, C. F. Powell ranks 334 out of 6,924. Before him are Alexander Pope (1688), John Ruskin (1819), Frederick Sanger (1918), Charles Glover Barkla (1877), Ken Follett (1949), and Marianne Faithfull (1946). After him are Malcolm McDowell (1943), Enid Blyton (1897), Randal Cremer (1828), Charles Lyell (1797), William Crookes (1832), and Millvina Dean (1912).
1688 - 1744
HPI: 75.16
Rank: 328
1819 - 1900
HPI: 75.14
Rank: 329
1918 - 2013
HPI: 75.13
Rank: 330
1877 - 1944
HPI: 75.13
Rank: 331
1949 - Present
HPI: 75.02
Rank: 332
1946 - Present
HPI: 74.99
Rank: 333
1903 - 1969
HPI: 74.93
Rank: 334
1943 - Present
HPI: 74.93
Rank: 335
1897 - 1968
HPI: 74.90
Rank: 336
1828 - 1908
HPI: 74.87
Rank: 337
1797 - 1875
HPI: 74.86
Rank: 338
1832 - 1919
HPI: 74.85
Rank: 339
1912 - 2009
HPI: 74.85
Rank: 340
Among physicists born in United Kingdom, C. F. Powell ranks 18. Before him are Charles Thomson Rees Wilson (1869), John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh (1842), Peter Higgs (1929), Owen Willans Richardson (1879), William Henry Bragg (1862), and Charles Glover Barkla (1877). After him are Henry Moseley (1887), Thomas Young (1773), George Paget Thomson (1892), Edward Victor Appleton (1892), Roger Penrose (1931), and William Shockley (1910).
1869 - 1959
HPI: 77.24
Rank: 12
1842 - 1919
HPI: 76.60
Rank: 13
1929 - Present
HPI: 76.38
Rank: 14
1879 - 1959
HPI: 76.11
Rank: 15
1862 - 1942
HPI: 75.19
Rank: 16
1877 - 1944
HPI: 75.13
Rank: 17
1903 - 1969
HPI: 74.93
Rank: 18
1887 - 1915
HPI: 74.41
Rank: 19
1773 - 1829
HPI: 74.29
Rank: 20
1892 - 1975
HPI: 74.04
Rank: 21
1892 - 1965
HPI: 73.92
Rank: 22
1931 - Present
HPI: 73.40
Rank: 23
1910 - 1989
HPI: 72.94
Rank: 24