James Chadwick

Sir

James Chadwick
Sir James Chadwick c. 1945
Born
James Chadwick

(1891-10-20)October 20, 1891
Died24 July 1974(1974-07-24) (aged 82)
NationalityBritish
CitizenshipUnited Kingdom
EducationUniversity of Manchester
University of Cambridge
Known forDiscovery of the neutron
AwardsNobel Prize in Physics, 1935Nobel Prize in Physics (1935)
Franklin Medal (1951)
Scientific career
FieldsPhysics
InstitutionsTechnical University of Berlin
University of Liverpool
Gonville and Caius College
University of Cambridge
Manhattan Project
Academic advisorsErnest Rutherford
Hans Geiger
Doctoral studentsMaurice Goldhaber
Ernest C. Pollard
Charles Drummond Ellis

Sir James Chadwick CH FRS, (20 October 1891 – 24 July 1974) was an English physicist and Nobel Prize winner who is best known for discovering the neutron.[1]

  1. Brown, Andrew (1997). The neutron and the bomb: a biography of Sir James Chadwick. Oxford [Oxfordshire]: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-853992-4.

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