Ruhleben internment camp
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Ruhleben internment camp was a civilian detention camp in Germany during World War I. It was located in Ruhleben, a former Vorwerk manor 10 km to the west of Berlin. This area is now split between the
Panoramic view of Ruhleben internment camp by Nico Jungmann, one of the detainees
Bird's eye view of the camp
Detainees queuing for Christmas dinner: painting by Nico Jungman
Gala performance of The Mikado: painting by Nico Jungman
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
Ruhleben internment camp
…Hatfield, scholars from different fields gave lectures of university standard, organised in the open air. Among the lecturers were the physicists James Chadwick, Charles D. Ellis and Henry Brose, and the historian and author John Cecil Masterman. Sports also played a major role in the lives of the detainees…
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