Of the many scientists who gathered in the New desert on July 16, 1945, to witness the world's first atomic bomb explosion, one was a brilliant but shy Englishman.By rights, the name James Chadwick should be familiar far beyond his chosen field of physics. Like Albert Einstein, for instance, or J Robert , known as the 'father of the atomic bomb' and the subject of a cinematic blockbuster hailed last week as 'the best, most important film of this century'.After all, Chadwick's discovery of the neutron 13 years earlier was not only revolutionary in physics, it would in time change the course of history. Not least, it paved the way for the Manhattan Project, the name given to the development of the bomb.
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