Occhialini was involved in two Nobel Prize-winning works: the discovery of the positron and the discovery of the pion. However, as he was an anti-fascist, during the publication of most of his studies he was an exile in England, and could not publish only in his name, and therefore the articles he did were also signed by Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett in '32 when there was the work del positron and Cecil Frank Powell in '47 on the occasion of the work on the pion. Both of these works were awarded the Nobel but were awarded to Blacket and Powell. Blacket was honest enough to say that he had nothing to do with it and that Occhialini had done the job. Only many years later it was discovered, from the documents of the Nobel Foundation that there had been an explicit veto on the name Occhialini. In fact, Occhialini, since he had not collaborated in the atomic enterprise during the war, could not be awarded the Nobel. Occhialini was then awarded the Wolf Prize for physics in 1979.