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James Chadwick: The Man Behind the Neutron

Maya Kuppermann
May 15,

Submitted as coursework for PH, Stanford University, Winter

Background

Fig. 1: A schematic diagram of the experiment James Chadwick used to discover the neutron in (Source: Wikimedia Commons)

James Chadwick was born in Cheshire, England, on 20th October, He graduated from Manchester University in and went on to graduate from the Honours School of Physics in After graduation he spent two years working in Physical Laboratory in Manchester, where he worked on various radioactivity problems, gaining his degree in After being interned in the Zivilgefangenenlager, Ruhleben during World War I, Chadwick returned to England to continue his research.

Chadwick, James, 1891-1974 - AIP

Chadwick continued to move up the ladder in the world of science when he was elected Fellow of Gonville and Caius College () and became Assistant Director of Research in the Cavendish Laboratory (). In he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. [1]

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