James Chadwick

James Chadwick

male, deceased (1974)
Member of the Order of the Companions of Honour, Order of the Companions of Honour, neutron, English, Manhattan Project, university of liverpool
Sir James Chadwick, CH (20 October 1891 - 24 July 1974) was an English physicist and Nobel laureate who is best known for discovering the neutron.
Fritz Strassmann

Fritz Strassmann

male, deceased (1980)
Nobel Prize, strassman, Ph.D., University of Mainz, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Kaiser Wilhelm Institute…neutron
Fritz (Friedrich Wilhelm) Strassman (February 22, 1902 - April 22, 1980) was a German chemist who, along with Otto Hahn, and Lisa Meitner...
Hideki Yukawa

Hideki Yukawa

male, deceased (1981)
sumi, meson, theoretical physics, elementary particle, Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Nobel Prize…neutron
Hideki Yukawa FRSE (湯川 秀樹, January 23, 1907 - September 8, 1981) was a Japanese theoretical physicist and the first Japanese to win the Nobel pr...

Frédéric Joliot-Curie

male, deceased (1958)
NE, physicist, Nobel Prize, second world war, French, atheist…neutron
Jean Frédéric Joliot-Curie né Joliot (March 19, 1900 - August 14, 1958) was a French physicist and Nobel laureate. Born in Paris, France, he was a g...
Otto Robert Frisch

Otto Robert Frisch

male, deceased (1979)
Kungälv, London, England, atomic bomb, Manhattan Project, Refugee, British…neutron
Otto Robert Frisch (1 October 1904-22 September 1979), Austrian-British physicist. With his collaborator Rudolf Peierls he designed the first...
Wolf Ruvinskis

Wolf Ruvinskis

male, deceased (1999)
film actor, World War II, Lobo Negro, Mexican, el santo, Lilia Michel…neutron
Wolf Ruvinskis (born Wolf Ruvinskis Manevics on October 30 1921 in Riga, Latvia - November 9 1999 in Mexico City) was a Mexican actor and...
Henry Way Kendall

Henry Way Kendall

male, deceased (1999)
quark model, Amherst College, electron, proton, neutron, deerfield academy
Henry Way Kendall (December 9, 1926 - February 15, 1999) was an American physicist. He was born in Boston and attended Deerfield Academy and later...

William Draper Harkins

male, deceased (1951)
Stanford University, from Pennsylvania, Chemist, university of montana, sun, cyclotron…neutron
William Draper Harkins (December 28, 1873 - March 7, 1951) was an U.S. chemist, notably for his contributions to nuclear chemistry. Harkins...
G. B. Pegram

G. B. Pegram

male, deceased (1958)
Columbia University, Duke University, physicist, fascist, Duke University alumni, trinity college…neutron
George Braxton Pegram (October 24, 1876 - August 12, 1958) was an American physicist who played a key role in the technical administration of the...
Ilya Frank

Ilya Frank

male, deceased (1990)
physicist, 1908-1990, Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Igor Y. Tamm, nuclear particle, Cherenkov effect…neutron
Ilya Mikhailovich Frank was a Russian winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1958 jointly with Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov and Igor Y. Tamm,...