Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, January 1st, 1998
The Neutron and the Bomb: A Biography of Sir James Chadwick By Andrew Brown Oxford University Press, 1997 384 pages; $35.00
In its extensive coverage of Hiroshima's fiftieth anniversary, the New York Times mentioned James Chadwick only once, biographer Andrew Brown calculates. Yet Chadwick was a Nobel laureate for his 1932 discovery of the neutron--that sub-atomic particle with no electrical charge that can penetrate and split the nucleus of an atom. When the atomic target was uranium, or its man-made partner plutonium, the result was nuclear weapons.
Chadwick was in on the A-bomb's creati...
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