Discovery of the neutron
1932 · Event
James Chadwick identifies the neutron at Cambridge, completing the picture of the atom and opening the path to nuclear fission.
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- Battle of Stalingrad (1942)
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- Battle of Britain (1940)
- The Holocaust (1933)
- Manhattan Project (1942)
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- Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany (1933)
- Spanish Civil War (1936)
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