James Chadwick - Nobel Prize in Physics — 1935
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James Chadwick

Prize
Nobel Prize in Physics — 1935
for the discovery of the neutron
Citizenship
United Kingdom United Kingdom
Languages
English
date of birth
10/20/1891
place of birth
Bollington
date of death
7/24/1974
place of death
Cambridge
Lived
82 years
position held
  • Master of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
    • start time: 1948
    • end time: November 1958
member of
  • American Philosophical Society
    • start time: 1948
  • Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
    • start time: 6/12/1946
  • Saxon Academy of Sciences and Humanities
    • start time: 7/1/1932
  • American Physical Society
  • Pontifical Academy of Sciences
  • Royal Society of London
educated at
  • University of Manchester
    • start time: 1908
  • University of Cambridge
    • start time: 1919
  • Gonville and Caius College
  • Victoria University of Manchester
field of work
  • physics
  • radioactivity
  • neutron
  • nuclear bomb
occupation
  • physicist
  • university teacher
  • nuclear physicist
employer
  • University of Manchester
  • University of Liverpool
  • Victoria University of Manchester
doctoral student
  • Albert Crewe
  • Charles Drummond Ellis
  • Ernest C. Pollard
  • Maurice Goldhaber
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