biography
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Chadwick, Sir James
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| lived:
| (1891–1974)
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| biography:
| Physicist, born in Manchester, Greater Manchester, NW England, UK. He studied at Cambridge, and in Berlin under Geiger. He then worked at the Cavendish Laboratory with Rutherford, investigating the structure of the atom, and discovered the neutron (1932), for which he received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1935. He led the UK's work on the atomic bomb in World War 2, and was knighted in 1945. |
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