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James Chadwick
Sir James ChadwickCHFRS, (20 October 1891 – 24 July 1974) was an Englishphysicist and Nobel Prize winner who is best known for discovering the neutron.[1]
Biography
[change | change source]James Chadwick was born in Bollington, Cheshire, England.
He went to Manchester High School, and studied at the Universities of Manchester and Cambridge.
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In 1913, Chadwick went to Berlin in Germany to work with the scientist Hans Geiger. He also worked with Ernest Rutherford. He was still in Germany when World War I broke out and he was interned in Ruhleben P.O.W. Camp just outside Berlin.
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In the camp, which had more than 5,000 detainees (prisoners of war) had been a horse racetrack. There were stables, each with 27 horse boxes. The detainees lived in these boxes. The detainees were allowed to do things to keep themselves busy.
Chadwick worked with a young scientist called Charles Ellis. Together they set up a laboratory in the stables where they worked on