Giuseppe Occhialini

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Giuseppe Occhialini
Born(1907-12-05)5 December 1907
Fossombrone, Pesaro, Italy
Died30 December 1993(1993-12-30) (aged 86)
Paris, France
Known for
List
  • Contribution to the discovery of the positron
    Contribution to the discovery of the pion or pi-meson decay
Scientific career
Doctoral advisorBruno Rossi
Giuseppe (Beppo) P.S. Occhialini (1907–1993) and Patrick M.S. Blackett (1897–1974) in 1932 or 1933. Credit: Giuseppe Occhialini and Constance Dilworth Archive, Università degli Studi di Milano Statale.

Giuseppe Paolo Stanislao "Beppo" Occhialini ForMemRS[1] (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. Wills Laboratory of the University of Bristol.

The X-ray satellite SAX was named BeppoSAX in his honour after its launch in 1996.

  1. ^ Bignami, G. (2002). "Giuseppe Paolo Stanislao Occhialini. 5 December 1907 - 30 December 1993". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 48: 331–340. doi:10.1098/rsbm.2002.0019.