James Chadwick

James Chadwick was born on October 20, 1891. During the first world war, Chadwick was away in Germany on a scholarship, which resulted in him being detained and kept as a civillian prisoner of war for four years. After his release we returned to his home of England to carry out research at Cambridge University. Soon after he was appointed assistant director of the lab by none other than Ernest Rutherford. Chadwick's personal research was focused on radioactivity. Chadwick's own contribution to science prooves the existence of the neutron and as constiderably sped-up reasearch in nuclear physics today.