Cecil Powell blue plaque

This blue commemorative plaque records: Cecil Powell physicist, Nobel Laureate, lived here 1954-69 Recorded plaque organisation: Clifton and Hotwells Improvement Society.

Cecil Powell was a British physicist awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1950 for his development of the photographic method of studying nuclear processes and for the resulting discovery of the pion (pi-meson), a subatomic particle crucial to understanding the fundamental forces of nature.