James Chadwick
20 October 1891 – 24 July 1974
Sir James Chadwick (1891-1974) was an English physicist who discovered the neutron in 1932, a breakthrough that earned him the 1935 Nobel Prize in Physics. He later headed the British scientific mission to the Manhattan Project during the Second World War.
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Life events
James Chadwick was born in Bollington, Cheshire, the son of a cotton spinner.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgChadwick studied physics at the Victoria University of Manchester, where he began research under Ernest Rutherford.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgCaught in Berlin at the outbreak of war while working with Hans Geiger, Chadwick spent the war interned in the Ruhleben civilian camp.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgChadwick completed his doctorate at Cambridge and became assistant director of research at the Cavendish Laboratory under Rutherford.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgChadwick married Aileen Stewart-Brown of Liverpool; the couple later had twin daughters.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgIn February 1932 Chadwick performed experiments at the Cavendish Laboratory proving the existence of the neutron, a neutral particle in the atomic nucleus.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgChadwick left Cambridge to take the chair of physics at Liverpool, where he built a cyclotron for nuclear research.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgChadwick received the 1935 Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of the neutron.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgChadwick headed the British scientific delegation working on the atomic bomb in the United States and was knighted in 1945.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgChadwick died in his sleep in Cambridge at the age of 82.
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