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unusual facts about Wilson Marcy Powell, Sr.



Wilson Marcy Powell

Awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1941, Powell put together the Kenyon Cosmic Ray Expedition, and took a cloud chamber to the top of Mount Evans in Colorado.

Upon finishing the Guggenheim Fellowship in 1942, Powell began work in the Manhattan Project.

Wilson Marcy Powell (July 18, 1903 – March 2, 1974) was an American physicist and a member of the Physics department at the University of California, Berkeley.

Wilson Marcy Powell, Sr.

Residing at 130 East 70th Street, they had three children, Wilson Marcy Powell, Elsie K. Powell and Sarah Powell (Mrs. Prescott B. Huntington).


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