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PHYSICIST

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 74,359 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia. Giuseppe Occhialini is the 547th most popular physicist (down from 496th in 2019), the 3,014th most popular biography from Italy (down from 2,579th in 2019) and the 29th most popular Italian Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Giuseppe Occhialini ranks 547 out of 717Before him are William Edward Ayrton, Albert Betz, Jürgen Ehlers, Dirk Coster, Gustave Trouvé, and Louis-François-Clement Breguet. After him are William D. Coolidge, Charles Kittel, Bert Bolin, Étienne-Gaspard Robert, Ferdinand Monoyer, and Abraham Alikhanov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1907, Giuseppe Occhialini ranks 200Before him are Günter Eich, Camargo Guarnieri, Ahmet Adnan Saygun, Juan Carlos Corazzo, Ilia Vekua, and Jack Albertson. After him are Luigi Beccali, Zezé Moreira, Gordon Douglas, Fritz Szepan, Alberto Chividini, and František Junek. Among people deceased in 1993, Giuseppe Occhialini ranks 147Before him are Camargo Guarnieri, Guido del Mestri, Masuji Ibuse, Alexandre Trauner, Elmar Klos, and Moses Gunn. After him are Béla Sárosi, Gordon Douglas, Mieczysław Horszowski, Janet Margolin, Oliver Tambo, and Hédi Amara Nouira.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Giuseppe Occhialini ranks 3,014 out of 4,668Before him are Giuseppe Taddei (1916), Cecco Angiolieri (1260), Mango (1954), Alberto Gilardino (1982), Alessandro Tassoni (1565), and Francesco Sabatini (1721). After him are Esau de' Buondelmonti (1355), Domenico II Contarini (1585), Luigi Beccali (1907), Girolamo de Rada (1814), Nossis (null), and Caterina Caselli (1946).

Among PHYSICISTS In Italy

Among physicists born in Italy, Giuseppe Occhialini ranks 29Before him are Giovanni Battista Beccaria (1716), Nicola Cabibbo (1935), Macedonio Melloni (1798), Carlo Rovelli (1956), Augusto Righi (1850), and Antonio Pacinotti (1841). After him are Fabiola Gianotti (1960), Giovanni Giorgi (1871), Franco Rasetti (1901), Tullio Regge (1931), Carlo Alberto Castigliano (1847), and Bruno Zumino (1923).