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    Sir James Chadwick, CH, FRS (20 October 1891 – 24 July 1974) was an English physicist who was awarded the 1935 Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery...
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    beta, and gamma radiation. Experiments by Otto Hahn in 1911 and by James Chadwick in 1914 discovered that the beta decay spectrum was continuous rather...
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  • James Chadwick (24 April 1813 at Drogheda, Ireland – 14 May 1882 at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and buried at Ushaw) was an Anglo-Irish Roman Catholic priest...
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    atomic nucleus was established with the discovery of the neutron by James Chadwick in 1932 and the determination that it was a new elementary particle...
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  • Chadwick may refer to: Chadwick (surname) Chadwick (given name) Chadwick, Illinois, United States, a village Chadwick, Michigan, United States, a former...
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    Chadwick Aaron Boseman (/ˈboʊzmən/; November 29, 1976 – August 28, 2020) was an American actor. During his two-decade career, Boseman received several...
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    of nuclear power. In the decade after the neutron was discovered by James Chadwick in 1932, neutrons were used to induce many different types of nuclear...
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  • technology and is named in honour of Lord Rutherford of Nelson. The James Chadwick Medal and Prize is awarded "for distinguished contributions to particle...
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    1938. Chadwick was born on October 5, 1824, in Exeter, England to James Chadwick and his second wife Theresa. His grandfather, Andrew Chadwick, had been...
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  • Chadwick is an English surname of Anglo-Saxon origin meaning “town or village of Chad”, and the surname originates in the parish of Rochdale where the...
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    weekend of the Trinity test. Observers included Vannevar Bush, James Chadwick, James B. Conant, Thomas Farrell, Enrico Fermi, Hans Bethe, Richard Feynman...
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    Cambridge in 1919. Under his leadership, the neutron was discovered by James Chadwick in 1932. In the same year, the first controlled experiment to split...
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  • ejected protons of very high energy. Finally, in 1932 the physicist James Chadwick in England performed a series of experiments showing that the gamma...
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    died when he was still a young child, yet to be named. His father, James Chadwick, tutored the scientist John Dalton in music and botany and was considered...
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    discovered in heavy elements. English physicist James Chadwick discovered the neutron in 1932. Chadwick used an ionization chamber to observe protons knocked...
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    since gamma radiation had a similar effect on electrons in metals, but James Chadwick found that the ionization effect was too strong for it to be due to...
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  • decay should have been emitted at a specific energy. However, in 1914, James Chadwick showed that electrons were instead emitted in a continuous spectrum...
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    "Les Anges dans nos campagnes", with paraphrased English lyrics by James Chadwick. The song's subject is the birth of Jesus Christ as narrated in the...
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  • Anthony James Chadwick Sumption DSC VRD (15 May 1919 – 8 January 2008) was a British tax lawyer and Royal Navy submarine commander during the Second World...
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    James Chadwick Pennington (born June 26, 1976) is an American former football quarterback who played in the National Football League (NFL) for 11 seasons...
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    radioactivity and radioactive substances. The discovery of the neutron by James Chadwick in 1932 created a new means of nuclear transmutation. Enrico Fermi and...
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    director of the British "Tube Alloys" project, told James Bryant Conant on 14 November that James Chadwick had "concluded that plutonium might not be a practical...
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  • Coulomb barrier enabled the discovery of the neutron by James Chadwick in 1932. Chadwick, James (1932). "Possible existence of a neutron". Nature. 129...
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    Los Alamos Laboratory, James Chadwick led a multinational team of distinguished scientists that included Sir Geoffrey Taylor, James Tuck, Niels Bohr, Peierls...
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    Bibcode:1920RSPSA..97..374R. doi:10.1098/rspa.1920.0040. ISSN 0950-1207. Chadwick, J. (1932). "The existence of a neutron". Proceedings of the Royal Society...
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  • High Performed by Kayliann Traditional French Carol Lyrics written by James Chadwick, Arranged by Doug Lowe & Kayliann I'm Getting Better All the Time Performed...
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  • (1882–1945) C. V. Raman (1888–1970) William Lawrence Bragg (1890–1971) James Chadwick (1891–1974) Arthur Compton (1892–1962) Pyotr Kapitsa (1894–1984) Charles...
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    time to impact the war in Europe. By March 1943 Conant decided that James Chadwick and one or two other British scientists were important enough that the...
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    Scott Sherrington (Medicine – 1933) Erwin Schrödinger (Physics – 1935) James Chadwick (Physics – 1935) Patrick Blackett (Physics – 1948) John Cockcroft (Physics...
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    Solvay. He ran into withering skepticism from the Cavendish Laboratory's James Chadwick, the physicist who had discovered the neutron in 1932, for which he...
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