Abstract

There are not very many of us left who can remember the 1920s, when the Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge University was the leader in the nascent subject of nuclear science. Earlier in the century Rutherford and Bohr had established that the atom had a nucleus. At Manchester University, where this took place, theory and experiment went together smoothly. Chadwick finished his undergraduate work at Manchester University in 1911 and at the end of four years had his name on four research papers, two of them on his own. At the conclusion of the work for his MSc degree, in 1913, he was awarded an 1851 exhibition scholarship and used this to go to work in Germany with Geiger, who had also been at Manchester. With Geiger he made one of his major discoveries, the continuous beta-ray spectrum.

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