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Parents:
John Joseph CHADWICK
 		 
 
Anne Mary KNOWLES
 		 
 

Married: 1925 [119]
Sir James CHADWICK CH FRS
(1891 - 1974)		Aileen STEWART-BROWN
 
 bd.  20 Oct 1891; Clarke Lane, Bollington, Cheshire UK
 dd.  24 July 1974, age 82; Cambridge UK
 edu.  Bollington Cross school; Manchester, Berlin & Cambridge universities
 occ.  UK's leading Physicist in the 1920s and 30s; part of the Los Alamos team that developed the nuclear bomb in the early 1940s.
1948-1958: Master of Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge.
 res.  UK
 src.   [119]
 bd.  
 dd.  Deceased, age not recorded
 res.  UK
 src.   [119]

Sir James CHADWICK Sir James CHADWICK, blue plaque

Children (2):

Joanna CHADWICK (1927 - )
[Twin]
Judith CHADWICK (1927 - )
[Twin]

Notes for James CHADWICK CH FRS

Discoverer of the neutron. Awarded the Nobel prize for Physics in 1935 and a knighthood in 1945. Further information in the web page: Happy Valley: James Chadwick history, and a fuller biography is to be found on Wikipedia.

Sources

119.  Website, 13/11/2018, Wikipedia, James Chadwick

Family record last updated: 13 November 2018

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