Word: chadwick
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tools of pre-atomic war the U.S. had a headstart that would require at least a generation for any nation to overcome. In atomic war, the advantage was hazardous. Sir James Chadwick, chief British adviser on the atomic bomb, said that any nation with the raw materials could make a bomb in five years without help from...
...James Chadwick of England discovered the neutron, a particle which has no electric charge and therefore slips straight through the powerful electric shields outside and inside of heavy atoms. Soon Italy's brilliant Enrico Fermi (who has lived in the U.S. since 1939), was attacking all sorts of heavy atoms, including uranium, with neutrons. The neutron became the trigger of the atomic bomb...
...James Chadwick, British physicist, said that some of his colleagues had refused to work on the atomic bomb for fear that they might be creating a planet-destroying monster...
...WALLACE CHADWICK Chester...
...Theodore Chadwick, Jr., assisted by Gilbert King and A. C. Petite, will command the 1st Battalion quartered in Eliot House, while the mixed NROTC pre-med contingents of the 2nd Battalion are headed by Batt. Commdr. Dean M. Hennesey, Sub-Commdr. Bruce A. Cameron, and Adjutant L. E. Smart...