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Giuseppe "Beppo" Occhialini (December 5, 1907 in Fossombrone, Pesaro, Italy – 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.
External links
- Giuseppe "Beppo" Occhialini. Agenzia Spaziale Italiana.
- Giuseppe Occhialini. American Physical Society (in PDF)
- "Ricordando Beppo" (Remembering Beppo). Video on Giuseppe Occhialini's life. Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica - Italy
Further reading
- Redondi, Pietro. The Scientific Legacy of Beppo Occhialini. Bologna: Società Italiana di Fisica, Springer, 2006. ISBN 9783540373537.
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