James Chadwick

By Maty SkinnerBy Maty Skinner

Born in Born in Cheshire, Cheshire, EnglandEngland

Born on 20th Born on 20th October, 1891 October, 1891

He attended He attended Manchester High Manchester High School. School.

He graduated He graduated from the Honors from the Honors School School of Physics in 1911. of Physics in 1911.

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

After World War I he accepted the After World War I he accepted the Wollaston Studentship.Wollaston Studentship.

He resumed work under Rutherford He resumed work under Rutherford

Rutherford had recently succeeded Rutherford had recently succeeded in in

disintegrating atoms by bombarding disintegrating atoms by bombarding

nitrogen.nitrogen.

He was….

Elected Fellow of Gonville and Caius College

Assistant Director of Research in the Cavendish Laboratory

Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.

In 1932, James Chadwick

discovered a third type of subatomic particle, which he

named the neutron

Awards

The Hughes Medal of the Royal Society in 1932

The Nobel Prize for Physics in 1935.

Sir James was knighted in 1945

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

More Awards

Many Honorary doctorate degrees from the Universities of Reading

He is also a member of several

foreign academies.

James Chadwick initially wanted to study

mathematics as an undergraduate, but got in the wrong registration line

by mistake.

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