James Chadwick

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James Chadwick

• By Maty Skinner

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• Born in Cheshire, England
• Born on 20th
• October, 1891

• He attended Manchester High School.
• He graduated from the Honors School
• of Physics in 1911.

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• Worked two years
• under Professor
• Rutherford
• Gained his M.Sc. degree in 1913.

• He was awarded the 1851 Exhibition Scholarship
• Proceeded to Berlin to work in the national
  institute for natural and engineering sciences

Rutherford
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• After World War I he accepted the Wollaston
  Studentship.
• He resumed work under Rutherford
• Rutherford had recently succeeded in
• disintegrating atoms by bombarding
• nitrogen.

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He was.

• Elected Fellow of Gonville and Caius College
• Assistant Director of Research
• in the Cavendish Laboratory
• Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.

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• In 1932, James Chadwick discovered a third type
  of subatomic particle, which he named the neutron

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Awards

• The Hughes Medal of the Royal Society in 1932
• The Nobel Prize for Physics in 1935.
• Sir James was knighted in 1945

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More Awards/Metals

• He received the Copley Medal 1950
• The Franklin Medal of the Franklin Institute,
  Philadelphia 1951.
• He is an Honorary Fellow
• of the Institute of Physics

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More Awards

• Many Honorary doctorate degrees from the
  Universities of Reading
• He is also a member of several
• foreign academies.

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• James Chadwick
• initially wanted to study
• mathematics as an
• undergraduate, but got in
• the wrong registration line
• by mistake.

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• Nobelprize.org." James Chadwick. Web.
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• "Vision Learning." Atomic Theory I. Web.
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