
James Chadwick
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Gender | Male |
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Death | 50 years ago |
Date of birth | October 20,1891 |
Zodiac sign | Libra |
Born | Bollington |
United Kingdom | |
Date of died | July 24,1974 |
Died | Cambridge |
United Kingdom | |
Nationality | British |
Known for | MAUD Committee |
Manhattan Project | |
Awards | Nobel Prize in Physics |
Copley Medal | |
Hughes Medal | |
Franklin Medal | |
Fellow of the Royal Society | |
Spouse | Aileen Stewart-Brown |
Children | Judith Chadwick |
Joanna Stewart Chadwick | |
Parents | John Joseph Knowles |
Anne Mary Knowles | |
Siblings | Harry Knowles |
Hubert Knowles | |
Education | Gonville & Caius College, University of Cambridge |
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Date of Upd. | |
ID | 419387 |
James Chadwick Life story
Sir James Chadwick, CH, FRS 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.