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James Chadwick

1891 - 1974

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Sir James Chadwick (20 October 1891 – 24 July 1974) was an English nuclear physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1935 for his discovery of the neutron. In 1941, he wrote the final draft of the MAUD Report, which inspired the U.S. government to begin serious atomic bomb research efforts. He was the head of the British team that worked on the Manhattan Project during World War II. He was knighted in Britain in 1945 for his achievements in nuclear physics. Chadwick graduated from the Victoria University of Manchester in 1911, where he studied under Ernest Rutherford (known as the "father of nuclear physics"). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. James Chadwick is the 77th most popular physicist (down from 73rd in 2019), the 212th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 198th in 2019) and the 20th most popular British Physicist.

James Chadwick was a British physicist who is most famous for his discovery of the neutron in 1932.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, James Chadwick ranks 77 out of 851. Before him are Lev Landau, Frédéric Joliot-Curie, Ludwig Boltzmann, Max von Laue, Johannes Diderik van der Waals, and Edward Teller. After him are Hermann von Helmholtz, Christian Doppler, Ernst Mach, Manne Siegbahn, Luis Walter Alvarez, and Victor Francis Hess.

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Among people born in 1891, James Chadwick ranks 9. Before him are Antonio Gramsci, Sergei Prokofiev, B. R. Ambedkar, Mikhail Bulgakov, Max Ernst, and Nelly Sachs. After him are Walter Model, Edith Stein, Pär Lagerkvist, John Howard Northrop, Walther Bothe, and Henry Miller. Among people deceased in 1974, James Chadwick ranks 10. Before him are Georges Pompidou, Amin al-Husseini, Juan Perón, Ayub Khan, Patrick Blackett, and Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester. After him are Pär Lagerkvist, Earl Wilbur Sutherland Jr., Vittorio De Sica, U Thant, Lyudmila Pavlichenko, and Baldur von Schirach.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, James Chadwick ranks 212 out of 8,785. Before him are Rowan Atkinson (1955), Princess Charlotte of Wales (1796), Mick Jagger (1943), Alfred Russel Wallace (1823), Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon (1930), and Howard Carter (1874). After him are Princess Helena of the United Kingdom (1846), Anthony Giddens (1938), William Blake (1757), David Livingstone (1813), Saint Boniface (680), and Catherine Howard (1523).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United Kingdom

Among physicists born in United Kingdom, James Chadwick ranks 20. Before him are Nevill Francis Mott (1905), David J. Thouless (1934), Brian Josephson (1940), Patrick Blackett (1897), Charles Glover Barkla (1877), and Paul Dirac (1902). After him are C. F. Powell (1903), William Henry Bragg (1862), Thomas Young (1773), Peter Higgs (1929), Roger Penrose (1931), and Henry Moseley (1887).

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