James Chadwick (20 déc. 1891 – 9 févr. 1974)

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English physicist that believed in the possibility that particles with no charge could be in the nucleus. Chadwick had discovered the neutron in 1932 and wrote to a science journal to announce “the possible existence of a neutron” he believed the neutron was a complex particle consisting of a proton and an electron. He received a Nobel prize in 1935 for the discovery of the neutron.