Giuseppe Occhialini

Giuseppe "Beppo" Occhialini (b. December 5, 1907 in Fossombrone, Pesaro, Italy; d. December 30, 1993) , Italian physicist, contributed to the discovery of the pion or pi-meson decay in 1947, with César Lattes and Cecil Frank Powell (Nobel Prize for Physics). 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.

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Redondi, Pietro. The Scientific Legacy of Beppo Occhialini. Bologna: Società Italiana di Fisica, Springer, 2006. ISBN 9783540373537.

v • d • e Wolf Prize in Physics Laureates

Chien-Shiung Wu (1978) · George Uhlenbeck / Giuseppe Occhialini (1979) · Michael Fisher / Leo Kadanoff / Kenneth G. Wilson (1980) · Freeman Dyson / Gerardus 't Hooft / Victor Weisskopf (1981) · Leon M. Lederman / Martin Lewis Perl (1982) · Erwin Hahn / Peter Hirsch / Theodore Maiman (1983/4) · Conyers Herring / Philippe Nozieres (1984/5) · Mitchell Feigenbaum / Albert J. Libchaber (1986) · Herbert Friedman / Bruno Rossi / Riccardo Giacconi (1987) · Roger Penrose / Stephen Hawking (1988) · Pierre-Gilles de Gennes / David J. Thouless (1990) · Maurice Goldhaber / Valentine Telegdi (1991) · Joseph H. Taylor, Jr. (1992) · Benoît Mandelbrot (1993) · Vitaly Ginzburg / Yoichiro Nambu (1994/5) · John Wheeler (1996/7) · Yakir Aharonov / Michael Berry (1998) · Dan Shechtman (1999) · Raymond Davis, Jr. / Masatoshi Koshiba (2000) · Bertrand Halperin / Anthony Leggett (2002/3) · Robert Brout / François Englert / Peter Higgs (2004) · Daniel Kleppner (2005) · Albert Fert / Peter Grünberg (2006/7)

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