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Sir James Chadwick, CH, FRS (20 October 1891 – 24 July 1974) was an English physicist who was awarded the 1935 Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery of the neutron in 1932. In 1941, he wrote the final draft of the MAUD Report, which inspired the U.S. government to begin serious atom bomb research efforts.
James Chadwick (born October 20, 1891, Manchester, England—died July 24, 1974, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire) was an English physicist who received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1935 for the discovery of the neutron.
James Chadwick was a British physicist who discovered the neutron in 1932 and worked on nuclear transmutation and fission. He was a student and colleague of Rutherford, a Fellow of the Royal Society, and a Master of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.
James Chadwick won a Nobel Prize for his discovery of the neutron. The Oppenheimer movie has inevitably ignited interest in one of the most contentious episodes of modern history...
James Chadwick discovered the neutron, a neutral particle with about the same mass as a proton, in 1932. He proved that the radiation emitted by beryllium was not electromagnetic, but a new type of particle proposed by Ernest Rutherford.
[1] Discovery of the Neutron. In 1932, Chadwick made a fundamental discovery in the domain of nuclear science. Chadwick was fascinated by an experiment done by Frdric and Irne Joliot-Curie that studied the then-unidentified radiation from beryllium as it hit a paraffin wax target.
The essential nature of the atomic nucleus was established with the discovery of the neutron by James Chadwick in 1932 and the determination that it was a new elementary particle, distinct from the proton.
