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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. Wills Laboratory of the University of Bristol. The X-ray satellite SAX was named BeppoSAX in his honour after its launch in 1996. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Giuseppe Occhialini is the 558th most popular physicist (up from 581st in 2019), the 3,085th most popular biography from Italy (up from 3,268th in 2019) and the 29th most popular Italian Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Giuseppe Occhialini ranks 558 out of 851. Before him are Gene Amdahl, Robert H. Dicke, Philip Morrison, Richard Mollier, Ursula Franklin, and Knut Ångström. After him are William Astbury, Samuel T. Cohen, Wander Johannes de Haas, Ernest Marsden, Boris Rosing, and Alfred Perot.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1907, Giuseppe Occhialini ranks 201. Before him are Roger Vailland, František Junek, Amedeo Nazzari, Benny Carter, James A. Michener, and Sándor Veress. After him are Georges Speicher, Ragnar Nurkse, Germaine Tillion, Ilia Vekua, Willy Busch, and Abraham Joshua Heschel. Among people deceased in 1993, Giuseppe Occhialini ranks 144. Before him are Sam Wanamaker, Mick Ronson, Bertus Aafjes, Thurgood Marshall, Edward Bernard Raczyński, and David Koresh. After him are Norman Vincent Peale, Elvira Popescu, Erich Leinsdorf, Elmar Klos, Edith Farkas, and John Frost.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Giuseppe Occhialini ranks 3,085 out of 5,161. Before him are Florentino Ameghino (1853), Giuseppe Gioachino Belli (1791), Marino Morosini (1181), Reniero Zeno (1250), Camillo Boito (1836), and Alvise Contarini (1601). After him are Franco Rossi (1919), Giovanni Galli (1958), Antonio Juliano (1943), Aldo Boffi (1915), Asia Argento (1975), and Attilio Nicora (1937).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Italy

Among physicists born in Italy, Giuseppe Occhialini ranks 29. Before him are Nicola Cabibbo (1935), Edoardo Amaldi (1908), Giovanni Poleni (1683), Fabiola Gianotti (1960), Giovanni Battista Beccaria (1716), and Richard Mollier (1863). After him are Antonio Pacinotti (1841), Tullio Regge (1931), Franco Rasetti (1901), Carlo Alberto Castigliano (1847), Giovanni Giorgi (1871), and Bruno Zumino (1923).

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