Monday 4 June 2012

ILL celebrates the neutron’s 80th birthday

http://www.ill.eu/en/news-events/press-room/press-releases/ill-celebrates-the-neutrons-80th-birthday-1062012/   ..."1st June 2012: Today marks 80 years since Cambridge Physicist James Chadwick’s famous Nobel Prize winning paper proving the existence of the neutron was published by the Royal Society. Chadwick's discovery led to the development of neutron research which has been making breakthroughs across the sciences.This year also marks the 40th anniversary of the use of Chadwick's famous particles at the Institut Laue-Langevin."

See also: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01j6t0n

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