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James Chadwick
English physicist (1891-1974), who discovered the neutron in 1932
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- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 20 October 1891, 1891
- Died
- 24 July 1974, 1974
- Conflict
- World War I
- Place of birth
- Bollington
- Place of death
- Cambridge
- Sex or gender
- male
- Given name
- James
- Family name
- Chadwick
- Father
- J. J. Chadwick
- Field of work
- physics, neutron, nuclear bomb, radioactivity
- Occupation
- nuclear physicist, university teacher, physicist
- Position held
- Master of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Awards
- Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts order, Fellow of the Royal Society, Copley Medal, Nobel Prize in Physics, Hughes Medal, Faraday Medal, Franklin Medal, Melchett Medal, Companion of Honour, Knight Bachelor, Royal Society Bakerian Medal, Guthrie Medal and Prize
- academic degree
- Master of Science, Doctor of Philosophy
- described by source
- Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1969–1978), Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 8, Physicists: Biographical Dictionary
- different from
- James Chadwick, James Read Chadwick
- doctoral advisor
- Ernest Rutherford
- doctoral student
- Charles Drummond Ellis, Maurice Goldhaber, Albert Crewe, Ernest C. Pollard
- educated at
- University of Manchester, Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge, Victoria University of Manchester
- Erdős number
- 5
- honorific prefix
- Sir
- interested in
- physics
- languages spoken, written or signed
- English
- member of
- Royal Society, Saxon Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Pontifical Academy of Sciences, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, American Philosophical Society, American Physical Society
- name in native language
- James Chadwick
- nominated for
- Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize in Physics
- participant in
- Manhattan Project
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