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.

Image caption, James Chadwick's school in Cheshire now has a ... the Nobel Prize-winning New Zealander whose model of the atom is still used in schools worldwide. "You don't let undergraduate ...

1932: English physicist James Chadwick publishes a letter on the existence of the neutron. His discovery helps clear the way for splitting the nuclei of even the heaviest atomic elements ...

By rights, the name James Chadwick should be familiar far beyond his chosen field of physics. Like Albert Einstein, for instance, or J Robert Oppenheimer, known as the 'father of the atomic bomb ...

The documents were sent to the UK's Royal Society for safekeeping by James Chadwick, discoverer of the neutron, during World War II. He felt their contents, which described cutting-edge science, were ...