Research Paper On James Chadwick

James Chadwick was a very intelligent boy, as a teenager he knew that he wanted to study physics and so he did. James Chadwick went to the University of Cambridge at the age of 17, in the year 1908. When he was 19 he was in his final year of his physics degree. James’ teacher was Ernest Rutherford another famous scientist who won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry, because of his studies on disintegrating the atom. After James turned in his research paper he graduated with first class honors. For James Chadwick those were three of his worst financial years ever, he starved because he had no money to pay for lunch. After he graduated he stayed at Manchester working as Rutherford’s assistant and learned a lot more (“Famous Scientist”). A few years later in James’ life he got a scholarship to work for Hans Geiger in Berlin, …show more content…
He worked for Rutherford for a very long time in two places in Cambridge and in Manchester. Will working in Cambridge he was elected fellow. He worked in a camp during the years of World War 1 in Berlin. James also came to America to help with the atomic bomb project ( “James Chadwick” ). James Chadwick contributed to the Atomic Theory be discovering the Neutron. When he was playing around with the Beryllium atoms and alpha particles an unknown radiation was formed. James thought that the radiation was charged a a neutral electric charge and the approximate amount of a proton. The particle found by James Chadwick was now given the name Neutron. After this discovery a element from the periodic table now had a better model of itself(“ Development of the Atomic Theory”). James Chadwick was born in Cheshire, England on October 20th, 1891. The parents of James Chadwick were John Joseph Chadwick and Anne Mary Knowles. James Chadwick went to Manchester High School as a kid (“ Famous Scientist “). James Chadwick died on July 24, 1974. James Chadwick died in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire (“James