James Chadwick
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an English physicist who was awarded the 1935 Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery of the neutron in 1932.
Born
20 October 1891 Bollington, Cheshire, England
Died
24 July 1974 (aged 82) Cambridge, England
Nationality
English
Known for
Discovery of the neutron MAUD Committee Report Manhattan Project
Fields
Physics
Alma mater
University of Manchester University of Cambridge
Awards
Fellow of the Royal Society (1927) Hughes Medal (1932) Nobel Prize in Physics (1935) Knight Bachelor (1945) Melchett Medal (1946) Copley Medal (1950) Faraday Medal (1950) Franklin Medal (1951) Guthrie
Institutions
Physikalisch-Technische Reichsanstalt University of Liverpool Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge Manhattan Project
adultbasic
Britain
Citizenship
British
Doctoral advisor
Ernest Rutherford
Doctoral students
Étienne Biéler Charles Drummond Ellis Ernest C. Pollard Maurice Goldhaber Joseph Rotblat
era
1800+