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Science 16 October 1998:
Vol. 282. no. 5388, p. 422
DOI: 10.1126/science.282.5388.422
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HISTORY:
A Modest Maker of Modern Physics

A review by Lorna Arnold

The Neutron and the Bomb A Biography of Sir James Chadwick
Andrew Brown
Oxford University Press, New York, 1997. 402 pp. $35. ISBN 0-19-853992-4.

Brown, an English radiation oncologist, provides the first biography of the physicist who discovered the neutron, helped write the "Maud" report that led the British and Americans to pursue nuclear weapons, and was the chief British scientist on the Manhattan Project.
The author, formerly official historian of the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, resides at 13 Conifer Close, Oxford OX2 9HP, UK.

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