While the film focuses on the eponymous American physicist spearheading Allied efforts to make the atomic bomb, the team also involved British Nobel Prize winner James Chadwick. Yet little is ...

Now head of Cambridge University's nuclear physics lab, Rutherford oversaw Chadwick's PhD in 1921 and then made him assistant director of the lab. Chadwick's own research focused on radioactivity.

Now head of Cambridge University's nuclear physics lab, Rutherford oversaw Chadwick's PhD in 1921 and then made him assistant director of the lab. Chadwick's own research focused on radioactivity.

At the beginning of the century, it was believed by physicists that atoms were made up of protons and electrons. This view of ...