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In Our Time: The Neutron

The Neutron

14/04/2016

BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, The Neutron

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the neutron.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the neutron in the atomic nucleus, in the laboratory and in the densest stars.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the neutron, one of the particles found in an atom's nucleus. Building on the work of Ernest Rutherford, the British physicist James Chadwick won the Nobel Prize for Physics for his discovery of the neutron in 1932. Neutrons play a fundamental role in the universe and their discovery was at the heart of developments in nuclear physics in the first half of the 20th century. 

With 

Val Gibson
Professor of High Energy Physics at the University of Cambridge and fellow of Trinity College

Andrew Harrison
Chief Executive Officer of Diamond Light Source and Professor in Chemistry at the University of Edinburgh

And

Frank Close
Professor Emeritus of Physics at the University of Oxford.

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