July 05, 2016 Tuesday
The mother of James Chadwick was an unknown domestic servant (From now on I will have a far greater respect for them).
His father was a cotton spinner.
Thus Chadwick was born in 1891 in Cheshire, North West England to parents with no "status" in a society where that mattered utmost.
When he was just 4, both his parents moved to Manchester, leaving him under the care of his maternal grandparents.
His parents could barely afford for his education even though he won scholarships.
Like any smart kid, he had wanted to study maths but by mistake enrolled himself in physics.
It was at the age of 17 in 1908 that he first brushed across Rutherford at the Victoria University of Manchester.
He would walk 6.4 kilometers to the university and back everyday.
Rutherford gave Chadwick the project of comparing the radioactive energy of 2 sources.
Chadwick devised his own method to do so and thus published his first paper with Rutherford as the coauthor at the age of 21 in 1912.
He also got his Bachelor's degree with first class honours.
Within another year, he published another paper on the absorption of gamma rays by various gases and liquids.
This paper had no coauthor and for this he was awarded his MSc (Master of Science) degree in 1912.
Another year and he won a scholarship that allowed him to study and do research in any university in Europe.
Remember, in early 1900s, Europe and specially Germany was the United States of today where cutting edge research took place.
Chadwick chose to study beta radiation under non other than Hans Geiger whose brilliant experiments we had been following for over a week.
Not soon after whrn Chadwick set foot on the German soil, the madness of the first world war broke out.
We shall continue with Chadwick's life in nights to come.
Stay tuned to the voice of an average storytelling chimpanzee or login at http://panarrans.blogspot.in/
Good night mon ami and my fellow cousin ape.
The mother of James Chadwick was an unknown domestic servant (From now on I will have a far greater respect for them).
His father was a cotton spinner.
Thus Chadwick was born in 1891 in Cheshire, North West England to parents with no "status" in a society where that mattered utmost.
When he was just 4, both his parents moved to Manchester, leaving him under the care of his maternal grandparents.
His parents could barely afford for his education even though he won scholarships.
Like any smart kid, he had wanted to study maths but by mistake enrolled himself in physics.
It was at the age of 17 in 1908 that he first brushed across Rutherford at the Victoria University of Manchester.
He would walk 6.4 kilometers to the university and back everyday.
Rutherford gave Chadwick the project of comparing the radioactive energy of 2 sources.
Chadwick devised his own method to do so and thus published his first paper with Rutherford as the coauthor at the age of 21 in 1912.
He also got his Bachelor's degree with first class honours.
Within another year, he published another paper on the absorption of gamma rays by various gases and liquids.
This paper had no coauthor and for this he was awarded his MSc (Master of Science) degree in 1912.
Another year and he won a scholarship that allowed him to study and do research in any university in Europe.
Remember, in early 1900s, Europe and specially Germany was the United States of today where cutting edge research took place.
Chadwick chose to study beta radiation under non other than Hans Geiger whose brilliant experiments we had been following for over a week.
Not soon after whrn Chadwick set foot on the German soil, the madness of the first world war broke out.
We shall continue with Chadwick's life in nights to come.
Stay tuned to the voice of an average storytelling chimpanzee or login at http://panarrans.blogspot.in/
Good night mon ami and my fellow cousin ape.
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