For four years, James Chadwick ... He called it a neutron, and imagined it as a paired proton and electron. There was no evidence for any of these ideas. Chadwick kept the problem in the back ...

James Chadwick had just discovered the neutron and Cambridge physicists soon ... how it could be used to produce a bomb, and what the appalling consequences of dropping it would be.

and the typical features of nuclear reactions are therefore perhaps most clearly shown by neutron impacts. Already in his original work on the properties of high-speed neutrons Chadwick recognised ...

An atomic bomb report written weeks before ... Nobel laureate and pioneer of the cyclotron; James Chadwick, discoverer of the neutron; and Harold Urey, a Nobel Prize recipient and expert in ...

Prof Val Gibson tells Melvyn Bragg about the device used in the discovery of the neutron. When later interviewed for the New York Times, Chadwick said ... a passage in James Joyce’s Finnegans ...