James chadwick

James Chadwick

  • PARENTS

    John Joseph Chadwick and Anne Mary Knowles.
  • HOBBIES

    Some of his hobbies was gardening and fishing.
  • He born in:

    At Bollington, United Kingdom
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    STUDIES

    He attended Manchester High School prior to entering Manchester University in 1908; he graduated from the Honours School of Physics in 1911 and spent the next two years under Professor (later Lord) Rutherford in the Physical Laboratory in Manchester
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    He was elected Fellow of Gonville and Caius College
  • MARRIAGE

    He married Aileen Stewart-Brown of Liverpool. And they have twin daughters, and live at Denbigh, North Wales.
  • DISCOVERY

    He makes a fundamental discovery in the domain of nuclear science: he proved the existence of neutrons
  • MEDAL

    For this epoch-making discovery he was awarded the Hughes Medal of the Royal Society
  • NOBEL PRICE

    subsequently the Nobel Prize for Physics in subsequently the Nobel Prize for Physics.
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    HIS WORK IN U.S.A

    From 1943 to 1946 he worked in the United States as Head of the British Mission attached to the Manhattan Project for the development of the atomic bomb.