| James Chadwick  Born: 20-Oct-1891
Birthplace: Manchester, England
Died: 24-Jul-1974
Location of death: Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England
Cause of death: unspecified
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Physicist Nationality: England
Executive summary: Discovered the neutron Father: John Joseph Chadwick
Mother: Anne Mary Knowles
Wife: Aileen Stewart-Brown (m. 1925, two daughters)
University: MSc, University of Manchester (1913)
University: Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge University
University: Technische Hochschule, Berlin
Professor: Lyon Jones Chair of Physics, University of Liverpool (1935-)
Professor: Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge University (1948-58).
American Philosophical Society
American Physical Society
Pontifical Academy of Sciences
Royal Society 1927
Royal Society of Edinburgh Fellow (1946)
Nobel Prize for Physics 1935
Hughes Medal 1932
Copley Medal 1950
Knight of the British Empire 1945
Taken Prisoner of War
Manhattan Project
Author of books:
Radiations from Radioactive Substances (1930, physics, co-author)
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