Sir James Chadwick
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Sir James Chadwick 1891-1974, English physicist, grad. Manchester Univ., 1908. He worked at Manchester under Ernest Rutherford on radioactivity. He was assistant director of radioactive research in the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge (1923-35), professor at the Univ. of Liverpool (1935-48), and master of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge (1948-58). For his discovery of the neutron in 1932 he received the 1935 Nobel Prize in Physics. He was knighted in 1945.
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