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After WWII he returned to
Britain and was knighted for his work on the
Manhattan Project. But he continued to work
towards Britain obtaining its own nuclear weapons,
sitting on the Advisory Committee on Atomic Energy
and United Nations Atomic Energy Commission. He
accepted the position of Master of Gonville Caius
College which he held for 10 years. In these years
he continued to receive medals for his discovery
of the neutron including the Franklin Medal,
Copley Medal, and Faraday Medal. Other honors he
has received are Chadwick
Laboratory at the University of Liverpool and
Sir James Chadwick Chair of Experimental Physics
being named in his honor. |
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| Michael Pritchard PHYS 211X |