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Authorised form of name	Powell; Cecil Frank (1903 - 1969)
Dates	1903 - 1969
Nationality	British
Place of birth	Tonbridge, Kent, England
Date of birth	05/12/1903
Place of death	Near Bellano, Lake Como, Italy
Date of death	09/08/1969
Research field	Physics
Activity	Medals and prizes: Nobel Prize (Physics) 1950
Membership category	Fellow
Date of election	17/03/1949
Age at election	45
RSActivity	Medals and prizes: Hughes Medal 1949; Royal Medal 1961 Lectures: Bakerian 1957; Tercentenary 1960
Source	Sources: DSB AssocMaterial: CSAC 12/6/74, 111/2/86. Papers deposited in the Wills Memorial Library, University of Bristol Obituaries: Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1971 vol 17 pp 541-563, plate, by F C Frank and D H Perkins, with appendix by A M Tyndall References: R Singh and F Riess, 'The nobel laureate Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman FRS and his contacts with the British Scientific community in a social and political context' in NR 2004 vol 58 pp 47-64 P Harper, 'Preserving scientific archives: the work of NCUACS' in NR 2004 vol 58 pp 227-232
Code	NA6049

Archives associated with this Fellow

RefNo	Title	Date
EC/1949/18	Powell, Cecil Frank: certificate of election to the Royal Society
HWT/24/2/2	Correspondence and papers regarding Royal Society policy subsequent to the Russian invasion of Czechoslovakia	August 1968 - December 1969
MDA/C/20/8	Correspondence on a Messel Research Fund grant to Cecil Frank Powell	1938
EXP/11/1/1/206	Halley Bay expedition, file 'IGY Finance Reports on Apparatus Purchased on IGY Grants'	1958-1959
RR/42/73	Referee's report by Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, on a paper 'The mobility of ions in pure gases' by Arthur Mannering Tyndall and Cecil Frank Powell	June 1930
RR/46/67	Referee's report by James Chadwick, on a paper 'Mobility of alkali ions in gases' by Cecil Frank Powell and Luang Brata	[June 1932]
RR/44/114	Referee's report by James Chadwick, on a paper 'Mobility of positive alkali ions in argon, neon and helium' by Arthur Mannering Tyndall and Cecil Frank Powell	December 1931
RR/56/71	Referee's report by John Cunningham McLennan, on a paper 'Characteristics of the adsorption of indium and thallium atoms on tungsten oxide' by Cecil Frank Powell and R L Mercer	[February 1935]
RR/63/49	Referee's report by Sydney Chapman, on a paper 'The Royal Society expedition to Montserrat, B.W.I. Final report' by Cecil Frank Powell	March 1937
RR/56/73	Second referee's report by Richard Whiddington, on a paper 'Characteristics of the adsorption of indium and thallium atoms on tungsten oxide' by Cecil Frank Powell and R L Mercer	[June 1935]
RR/69/222	Letter from Norman Feather, on a paper 'The scattering of 4.2 MeV protons by protons' by A N May and Cecil Frank Powell to J D Griffith Davie, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society	10 October 1946
RR/68/251	Referee's report by James Chadwick, on a paper 'Applications of photographic method to problems in nuclear physics. I (a) The determination of the energy of homogeneous groups of a-particles and protons (b) The determination of the energy of fast neutrons' by Cecil Frank Powell	[1942]
RR/68/273	Referee's report by George Paget Thomson, on a paper 'An investigation of the scattering of high-energy particles from the cyclotron by the photographic method, I. The experimental method' by James Chadwick, A N May, Thomas Gerald Pickavance and Cecil Frank Powell	[1943]
RR/68/274	Referee's report by James Chadwick, on a paper 'Applications of the photographic method to problems in nuclear physics. II. The scattering of 8.8 and 13 MeV neutrons by protons' by F C Champion and Cecil Frank Powell	[1943]
RR/69/162	Referee's report by Norman Feather, on a paper 'The scattering of 4·2 MeV protons by deuterium, helium and other light elements' by Walter Heinrich Heitler, A N May and Cecil Frank Powell	9 July 1946
RR/69/221	Referee's report by Norman Feather, on a paper 'The scattering of 4.2 MeV protons by protons' by A N May and Cecil Frank Powell	26 June 1946
RR/69/134	Referee's report by Norman Feather, on a paper 'The elastic scattering of 6.5 MeV deuterons by deuterium, helium and other light elements' by K M Guggenheimer, Walter Heinrich Heitler and Cecil Frank Powell	11 July 1946
RR/44/113	Referee's report by James Chadwick, on a paper 'The mobility of positive ions in helium. Part I. Helium ions' by Arthur Mannering Tyndall and Cecil Frank Powell	1931
IM/003640	Powell, Cecil Frank	nd
RR/68/250	Referee's report by Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett, Baron Blackett of Chelsea, on a paper 'Applications of photographic method to problems in nuclear physics. I (a) The determination of the energy of homogeneous groups of a-particles and protons (b) The determination of the energy of fast neutrons' by Cecil Frank Powell	27 June 1942
RR/49/37	Referee's report by Charles Drummond Ellis, on a paper 'Emission of metallic ions from oxide surfaces. II.—Mechanism of the emission' by Cecil Frank Powell and Luang Brata	[March 1933]
PB/1/33/2	Correspondence concerning the Copley Medal of the Royal Society	1956
RR/72/67	Referee's report by Cecil Frank Powell, on a paper 'The transformation of the heavy nitrogen isotope into carbon and helium by bombardment with protons' by W Cochrane and A G Hester	1949
RR/56/72	Referee's report by Richard Whiddington, on a paper 'Characteristics of the adsorption of indium and thallium atoms on tungsten oxide' by Cecil Frank Powell and R L Mercer	[February 1935]
RR/63/50	Referee's report by Harold Jeffreys, on a paper 'The Royal Society expedition to Montserrat, B.W.I. Final report' by Cecil Frank Powell	March 1937
RR/72/66	Letter from Cecil Frank Powell, on a paper 'The transformation of the heavy nitrogen isotope into carbon and helium by bombardment with protons' by W Cochrane and A G Hester to D C Martin, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society	11 July 1949

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