James Chadwick

Also known as Sir James Chadwick

English physicist (1891-1974), who discovered the neutron in 1932

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James Chadwick (1891–1974) was a British nuclear physicist and university teacher. Born in Bollington, he died in Cambridge. His academic career included positions at the University of Manchester, University of Liverpool, and Victoria University of Manchester. He was a member of the Royal Society, the Saxon Academy of Sciences and Humanities, the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, and the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Chadwick’s field of work encompassed physics, the neutron, nuclear bombs, and radioactivity. He participated in World War I and the Manhattan Project. His doctoral advisor was Ernest Rutherford, and he supervised students including Charles Drummond Ellis, Maurice Goldhaber, and Albert Crewe. He received the Nobel Prize in Physics, the Copley Medal, the Hughes Medal, and the title of Fellow of the Royal Society.

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Person · Open Library

Born: 1891
Works: 13

Top works

The collected papers of Lord Rutherford of Nelson, O.M
The collected papers of Lord Rutherford of Nelson, vol. 1
Radioactivity and radioactive substances
Radioactivity substances
THE COLLECTED PAPERS OF LORD RUTHERFORD OF NELSON

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: Seattle
Active from: 1891
Active to: 1974

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 4,034
Total plays: 10,248

Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

The PRISMA 2020 statement: an updated guideline for reporting systematic reviews
· 2021 · cited 84,951x
Special points for Brillouin-zone integrations
· 1976 · cited 68,286x
Fiji: an open-source platform for biological-image analysis
· 2012 · cited 66,835x
SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
· 2020 · cited 36,494x
Structural equation modeling in practice: A review and recommended two-step approach.
· 1988 · cited 31,712x

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Nobel Prize

The Nobel Prize in Physics1935
“for the discovery of the neutron”

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Wikidata facts

Instance of: human
Given name: James
Gender: male
Citizenship: United Kingdom
Place of birth: Bollington
Place of death: Cambridge
Occupation: physicist
Educated at: Victoria University of Manchester
Employer: Victoria University of Manchester
Languages spoken: English language
Award: Royal Society Bakerian Medal
Participant in: Manhattan Project
Academic degree: Doctor of Philosophy
Doctoral advisor: Ernest Rutherford
Field of work: radioactivity
Conflict: World War I
Image: James Chadwick.jpg

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Commons category: James Chadwick
member of: American Physical Society
date of birth: 1891-01-01
date of death: 1974-01-01
Erdős number: 5
nominated for: Nobel Prize in Physics
name in native language: James Chadwick
different from: James Read Chadwick
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honorific prefix: Sir
interested in: physics

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Encyclopedic overview

Sir James Chadwick (20 October 1891 – 24 July 1974) was a British experimental physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1935 for his discovery of the neutron. In 1941, he wrote the final draft of the MAUD Report, which inspired the U.S. government to begin serious atomic bomb research efforts. He was the head of the British team that worked on the Manhattan Project during World War II. He was knighted in Britain in 1945 for his achievements in nuclear physics.

Chadwick graduated from the Victoria University of Manchester in 1911, where he studied under Ernest Rutherford (known as the "father of nuclear physics"). At Manchester, he continued to study under Rutherford until he was awarded his MSc in 1913. The same year, Chadwick was awarded an 1851 Research Fellowship from the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851. He elected to study beta radiation under Hans Geiger in Berlin. Using Geiger's recently developed Geiger counter, Chadwick was able to demonstrate that beta radiation produced a continuous spectrum, and not discrete lines as had been thought. Still in Germany when World War I broke out in Europe, he spent the next four years in the Ruhleben internment camp.

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