While the film focuses on the eponymous American physicist spearheading Allied efforts to make the atomic bomb, the team also involved British Nobel Prize winner James Chadwick. Yet little is ...
For four years, James Chadwick was a prisoner of war in Germany. When World War I ended, he returned to his native England to rejoin the mentor of his undergraduate days, Ernest Rutherford.
At the beginning of the century, it was believed by physicists that atoms were made up of protons and electrons. This view of the atomic nucleus changed when James Chadwick discovered the existence of ...