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BirthMale; 20 Oct 1891; Clarke Lane, Bollington, Cheshire UK
Death24 July 1974, age 82; Cambridge UK
EducationBollington Cross school; Manchester, Berlin & Cambridge universities
OccupationUK'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.
ResidenceUK
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Web Page Happy Valley: James Chadwick history

Sir James CHADWICK Sir James CHADWICK, blue plaque

Spouse:

1  Married, 1925
Name
BirthFemale
DeathDeceased, age not recorded
ResidenceUK
Marriage 1925 [119]
Children (2):Joanna (Twin) (1927 - )
Judith (Twin) (1927 - )

Notes for Sir 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.

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

Person record last updated: 13 November 2018

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