James Chadwick
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Sir James Chadwick was a British experimental physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1935 for his discovery of the neutron. In 1941, he wrote the final draft of the MAUD Report, which in
Chadwick, c. 1945
The original building of the Cavendish Laboratory was the home of some of the great discoveries in physics. It was founded in 1874 by the Duke of Devonshire (whose family name was Cavendish), and its first professor was James Clerk Maxwell. The Laboratory has since moved to West Cambridge.
"Red brick" Victoria Building at the University of Liverpool.
Sir Ernest Rutherford's laboratory
Quebec Agreement
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The Quebec Agreement was a secret agreement between the United Kingdom and the United States outlining the terms for the coordinated development of the science and engineering related to nuclear energ
Mackenzie King, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill at the Quebec Conference in August 1943
Sir John Anderson, the minister responsible for Tube Alloys
Vannevar Bush, Director of the US Office of Scientific Research and Development
Lord Cherwell (foreground, in bowler hat) was scientific advisor to Winston Churchill (centre)