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Giuseppe Occhialini

1907 - 1993

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Giuseppe Paolo Stanislao "Beppo" Occhialini ForMemRS (Italian pronunciation: [dʒuˈzɛppe okkjaˈliːni]; 5 December 1907 – 30 December 1993) was an Italian physicist who contributed to the discovery of the pion or pi-meson decay in 1947 with César Lattes and Cecil Frank Powell, the latter winning the Nobel Prize in Physics for this work. At the time of this discovery, they were all working at the H. H. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Giuseppe Occhialini has received more than 81,208 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia. Giuseppe Occhialini is the 580th most popular physicist (down from 547th in 2019), the 3,268th most popular biography from Italy (down from 3,006th in 2019) and the 30th most popular Italian Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Giuseppe Occhialini ranks 580 out of 851. Before him are Antonio Pacinotti, Ludvig Faddeev, Jean Becquerel, Ole Jacob Broch, Gustav Heinrich Wiedemann, and Dirk Coster. After him are Carlo Alberto Castigliano, Charles W. Misner, José Celestino Mutis, Yakov Frenkel, Franco Rasetti, and William D. Coolidge.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1907, Giuseppe Occhialini ranks 218. Before him are Gordon Douglas, Gene Autry, Jean Aerts, Hans-Jürgen von Blumenthal, John King Fairbank, and Camargo Guarnieri. After him are Zezé Moreira, Heikki Savolainen, Mark Krein, Émile Veinante, Ragnar Gustavsson, and Lydia Chukovskaya. Among people deceased in 1993, Giuseppe Occhialini ranks 160. Before him are Eleanor Hibbert, Reuben Fine, Gordon Douglas, Albert Collins, Bob Kiesel, and Camargo Guarnieri. After him are Fred Gwynne, J. R. D. Tata, Robert Jacobsen, Pino Puglisi, Ihor Turchyn, and Carlos Marcello.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Giuseppe Occhialini ranks 3,268 out of 5,161. Before him are Bruno Chizzo (1916), Alessandra Martines (1963), Carlo Biagi (1914), Gioseffo Guami (1542), Giacomo Bulgarelli (1940), and Benedict Menni (1841). After him are Carlo Alberto Castigliano (1847), Pierluigi Martini (1961), Francesco Squarcione (1397), Raoul Bova (1971), Renato Rascel (1912), and Gaius Marcius Rutilus (-350).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Italy

Among physicists born in Italy, Giuseppe Occhialini ranks 30. Before him are Giovanni Battista Beccaria (1716), Edoardo Amaldi (1908), Nicola Cabibbo (1935), Macedonio Melloni (1798), Augusto Righi (1850), and Antonio Pacinotti (1841). After him are Carlo Alberto Castigliano (1847), Franco Rasetti (1901), Bruno Zumino (1923), Giovanni Giorgi (1871), Tullio Regge (1931), and Friedrich Carl Alwin Pockels (1865).

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