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James Chadwick

Published on Nov 20, 2015

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James Chadwick

Preston Davis & Dakota Martin
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who he was

  • Sir James Chadwick, CH, FRS was an English physicist who was awarded the 1935 Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery of the neutron in 1932.

where he worked

  • assistant director of the lab in cambridge university

when he started working

  • he started after he was freed as a prisoner from germany in world

Discovery

Neutron
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Experimentation

He was able to determine that the neutron did exist and that its mass was about 0.1 percent more than the proton's.

Tracked particle Radiation

repeated Frederic and Irene Joliot-Curie experiment
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Importance

Half of mass
makes isotopes