20th of October 1891, Sir James Chadwick was born. He was a British physicist who was awarded the 1935 Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery of the neutron in 1932. In 1941, he wrote the final draft of the MAUD Report, which inspired the U.S. government to begin serious atomic bomb research efforts. He was the head of the British team that worked on the Manhattan Project during the Second World War. He studied under Ernest Rutherford who was known as the "father of nuclear physics".
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