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Britannica, Encyclopædia. “James Chadwick.” Encyclopædia Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., 17 Dec. 2020, www.britannica.com/biography/James-Chadwick.

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Chadwick was educated at the University of Manchester, where he worked under Ernest Rutherford and earned a masters degree in 1913.

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Chadwick said he realized “that a nuclear bomb was not only possible, it was inevitable. I had then to take sleeping pills. It was the only remedy.”

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In 1940 he was part of the MAUD Committee, which was to assess the feasibility of the atomic bomb

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he received the Copley Medal of the Royal Society in 1950

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He became master of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, in 1946

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became the British scientific adviser to the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission.

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Chadwick retired in 1958

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He became head of the British delegation to the Manhattan project

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Chadwick was imprisoned at a civilian camp for all of World War I

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Chadwick received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1935

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Chadwick was knighted in 1945

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Discovered the subatomic particle, the neutron

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died July 24, 1974 in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire

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born October 20, 1891 in Manchester, England