The pion's pioneers

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The same detectors almost two decades later, still soldiering on. md5:6c2d8c00e9c69b8dc030bcc294dca925	402.6 kB	Preview Download
Peter Fowler recounted the pion discovery at the Bristol 40th anniversary meeting. Fowler, whose association with Bristol stretches over a comparable span, is a grandson of Rutherford. His father, Ralph Fowler, a key theorist at the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge, was married to Rutherford's only daughter Eileen. md5:c47660d7a2c18e0701a1559ac61b0ab5	152.9 kB	Preview Download
It was Cesare Lattes (left) and Hugh Muirhead who, together with G. P. S. Occhialini and Cecil Powell, discovered the pion at Bristol in 1947. The two met again at Bristol in July at the meeting to mark the 40th anniversary of the epic discovery md5:4d731c023b36867d731764b98d615a4e	513.2 kB	Preview Download
Cecil Powell's research group at Bristol in 1949. Rear row, left to right; A. R. Gattiker, Mary Cole, Mrs. M. L. Andrews, Mary Merritt, Alex Cole, Peggy Ford, Miss P. Dyer, June Cowie, Grace Hussey, Mrs. B. Moore, Mrs. J. Van der Merwe, Mary Jones, Margaret Stott. Middle row; W. O. Lock, J. H. Da vies, D. T. King, hi. He it 1er, S. O. C Sorensen, Mrs. I. Powell, C. F. Powell. Front row; T. Coor, H. Muirhead, U. Camerini, C. Franzinetti, N. Tobin, P. H. Fowler*. (Those indicated with an asterisk were present at the Bristol meeting this year.) (Photo University of Bristol) md5:70a84b217fe625796308182b975dddc3	417.2 kB	Preview Download
Particle physics research in the late 1940s. Owen Lock (right) and Max Roberts prepare a balloon for launching. md5:475b6b70efd8c672a92f44f32a219aca	574.1 kB	Preview Download

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