1891 - 1974
Sir James Chadwick, (20 October 1891 – 24 July 1974) was an English physicist who was awarded the 1935 Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery of the neutron in 1932. In 1941, he wrote the final draft of the MAUD Report, which inspired the U.S. government to begin serious atom bomb research efforts. He was the head of the British team that worked on the Manhattan Project during World War II. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of James Chadwick has received more than 1,577,569 page views. His biography is available in 89 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 87 in 2019). James Chadwick is the 46th most popular physicist (up from 51st in 2019), the 155th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 171st in 2019) and the 11th most popular British Physicist.
James Chadwick was a British physicist who is most famous for his discovery of the neutron in 1932.
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Among physicists, James Chadwick ranks 46 out of 717. Before him are J. J. Thomson, Wolfgang Pauli, Frédéric Joliot-Curie, Ernst Mach, Andrei Sakharov, and Thomas Young. After him are Johannes Diderik van der Waals, Ludwig Boltzmann, Hermann von Helmholtz, Christian Doppler, Wilhelm Wien, and Georges Lemaître.
1856 - 1940
HPI: 73.01
Rank: 40
1900 - 1958
HPI: 72.86
Rank: 41
1900 - 1958
HPI: 72.84
Rank: 42
1838 - 1916
HPI: 72.68
Rank: 43
1921 - 1989
HPI: 72.61
Rank: 44
1773 - 1829
HPI: 72.42
Rank: 45
1891 - 1974
HPI: 72.41
Rank: 46
1837 - 1923
HPI: 72.40
Rank: 47
1844 - 1906
HPI: 72.26
Rank: 48
1821 - 1894
HPI: 72.07
Rank: 49
1803 - 1853
HPI: 71.90
Rank: 50
1864 - 1928
HPI: 71.90
Rank: 51
1894 - 1966
HPI: 71.80
Rank: 52
Among people born in 1891, James Chadwick ranks 8. Before him are Erwin Rommel, Antonio Gramsci, Sergei Prokofiev, B. R. Ambedkar, Mikhail Bulgakov, and Walter Model. After him are Max Ernst, Edith Stein, Nelly Sachs, Henry Miller, Frederick Banting, and Pär Lagerkvist. Among people deceased in 1974, James Chadwick ranks 6. Before him are Oskar Schindler, Charles Lindbergh, Georgy Zhukov, Georges Pompidou, and Juan Perón. After him are Lyudmila Pavlichenko, Vittorio De Sica, Amin al-Husseini, Pär Lagerkvist, Baldur von Schirach, and U Thant.
1891 - 1944
HPI: 81.13
Rank: 2
1891 - 1937
HPI: 76.84
Rank: 3
1891 - 1953
HPI: 76.67
Rank: 4
1891 - 1956
HPI: 75.72
Rank: 5
1891 - 1940
HPI: 74.41
Rank: 6
1891 - 1945
HPI: 72.86
Rank: 7
1891 - 1974
HPI: 72.41
Rank: 8
1891 - 1976
HPI: 71.86
Rank: 9
1891 - 1942
HPI: 71.33
Rank: 10
1891 - 1970
HPI: 71.26
Rank: 11
1891 - 1980
HPI: 70.60
Rank: 12
1891 - 1941
HPI: 68.82
Rank: 13
1891 - 1974
HPI: 68.66
Rank: 14
1908 - 1974
HPI: 79.14
Rank: 1
1902 - 1974
HPI: 78.02
Rank: 2
1896 - 1974
HPI: 77.08
Rank: 3
1911 - 1974
HPI: 73.76
Rank: 4
1895 - 1974
HPI: 73.43
Rank: 5
1891 - 1974
HPI: 72.41
Rank: 6
1916 - 1974
HPI: 71.38
Rank: 7
1901 - 1974
HPI: 69.92
Rank: 8
1895 - 1974
HPI: 69.24
Rank: 9
1891 - 1974
HPI: 68.66
Rank: 10
1907 - 1974
HPI: 68.56
Rank: 11
1909 - 1974
HPI: 67.48
Rank: 12
Among people born in United Kingdom, James Chadwick ranks 155 out of 7,765. Before him are Catherine Parr (1512), Ian Fleming (1908), Alfred Marshall (1842), John Logie Baird (1888), Henry IV of England (1367), and Thomas Young (1773). After him are Ringo Starr (1940), Anne, Queen of Great Britain (1665), Saint Patrick (385), Mark Knopfler (1949), Aleister Crowley (1875), and Arthur C. Clarke (1917).
1512 - 1548
HPI: 72.50
Rank: 149
1908 - 1964
HPI: 72.50
Rank: 150
1842 - 1924
HPI: 72.50
Rank: 151
1888 - 1946
HPI: 72.45
Rank: 152
1367 - 1413
HPI: 72.44
Rank: 153
1773 - 1829
HPI: 72.42
Rank: 154
1891 - 1974
HPI: 72.41
Rank: 155
1940 - Present
HPI: 72.39
Rank: 156
1665 - 1714
HPI: 72.38
Rank: 157
385 - 461
HPI: 72.30
Rank: 158
1949 - Present
HPI: 72.18
Rank: 159
1875 - 1947
HPI: 72.16
Rank: 160
1917 - 2008
HPI: 72.08
Rank: 161
Among physicists born in United Kingdom, James Chadwick ranks 11. Before him are James Prescott Joule (1818), James Clerk Maxwell (1831), William Gilbert (1544), Paul Dirac (1902), J. J. Thomson (1856), and Thomas Young (1773). After him are Charles Thomson Rees Wilson (1869), Roger Penrose (1931), William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin (1824), John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh (1842), Owen Willans Richardson (1879), and Peter Higgs (1929).
1818 - 1889
HPI: 80.86
Rank: 5
1831 - 1879
HPI: 79.87
Rank: 6
1544 - 1603
HPI: 73.61
Rank: 7
1902 - 1984
HPI: 73.53
Rank: 8
1856 - 1940
HPI: 73.01
Rank: 9
1773 - 1829
HPI: 72.42
Rank: 10
1891 - 1974
HPI: 72.41
Rank: 11
1869 - 1959
HPI: 70.33
Rank: 12
1931 - Present
HPI: 69.71
Rank: 13
1824 - 1907
HPI: 69.64
Rank: 14
1842 - 1919
HPI: 69.62
Rank: 15
1879 - 1959
HPI: 69.23
Rank: 16
1929 - Present
HPI: 68.66
Rank: 17