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James Chadwick From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia For the bishop, see James Chadwick (bishop) . For the American gynaecologist, see James Read Chadwick . Sir James Chadwick Born 20 October 1891 Bollington , Cheshire , England Died 24 July 1974 (aged 82) Cambridge , England Nationality English Citizenship British Alma mater University of Manchester University of Cambridge Known for Discovery of the neutron MAUD Committee Report Manhattan Project Awards Fellow of the Royal Society (1927) Hughes Medal (1932) Nobel Prize in Physics (1935) Knight Bachelor (1945) Melchett Medal (1946) Copley Medal (1950) Faraday Medal (1950) Franklin Medal (1951) Guthrie Medal and Prize (1967) Companion of Honour (1970) Scientific career Fields Physics Institutions Physikalisch-Technische Reichsanstalt University of Liverpool Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge Manhattan Project Doctoral advisor Er

EUGEN GOLDSTEIN

Eugen Goldstein (5 September 1850 – 25 December 1930) was a German physicist . He was an early investigator of discharge tubes, the discoverer of anode rays , and is sometimes credited with the discovery of the proton . [1] Eugen Goldstein Born 5 September 1850 Gleiwitz, Prussia Died 25 December 1930 (aged 80) Nationality German Known for discovery of anode rays Awards Hughes Medal (1908) Scientific career Fields Physics Contents 1 Life 2 Work 3 Notes and references 4 Further reading Life Goldstein was born in 1850 at Gleiwitz Upper Silesia , now known as Gliwice , Poland. He studied at Breslau and later, under Helmholtz , in Berlin. Goldstein worked at the Berlin Observatory from 1878 to 1890, but spent most of his career at the Potsdam Observatory, where he became head of the astrophysical section in 1927. He died in 1930 and was buried in the Weißensee Cemetery in Berlin. Work In the mid-nineteenth century, Julius Plü