jan 27, 1932 - English physicist James Chadwick
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discovers the neutron; the American physicist Carl Anderson identifies the positron (the anti-electron which had been predicted by Paul Dirac a few years earlier); and the British physicist John Cockcroft and the Irish physicist Ernest Walton succeed in transmuting lithium into helium and other chemical elements using high energy protons, popularly referred to as “splitting the atom”.Added to timeline:
Date:
jan 27, 1932
Now
~ 94 years ago