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James Chadwick discovered the neutron
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Discovering the neutron changed how scientists understood the atomic nucleus.
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In 1932, physicist James Chadwick showed that penetrating radiation from beryllium included a neutral particle with a mass close to that of a proton. The particle was named the neutron. In 1935, Chadwick received the Nobel Prize in Physics for this discovery.

