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ATOMIC STRUCTURE III

 Who : James Chadwicks


 When : 1932
 Where : England
 What : Proved that the atomic nucleus contained a neutral
particle which had been proposed more than a decade
earlier by Ernest Rutherford.The neutral particle called
neutron.
 Why : Chadwick was trying to search the answer about
the existence of a particle with the mass of a proton but
with a neutral charge.

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