In the autumn of 1950 Prof. Joaquin Catalá formed a group in Valencia to study atomic nuclei and elementary particles using nuclear emulsions.
Powell, who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1950 for using this technique to detect particles in cosmic rays.
One of Catalá’s students, Fernando Senent, later becoming Professor and director of the Institute, produced what was the first Spanish thesis in Experimental Particle and Nuclear Physics.
It was at the beginning of 1960 when the Institute got its present name, IFIC, Instituto de Física Corpuscular.
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