Name the physicist who is credited with the discovery of the Neutron. This 1932 discovery led to his winning the Nobel Prize.

Options

A. Max Plank
B. J.S. Fleming
C. Enrico Fermi
D. James Chadwick

Answer

D

Explanation

James Chadwick was a British physicist who was awarded the 1935 Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery of the neutron in 1932. • Max Planck, a German physicist, is best known as the originator of the quantum theory of energy.
He was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1918 for this work.
• Enrico Fermi was the creator of the world.s first nuclear reactor, the Chicago Pile-1.
• He has been called the "architect of the nuclear age" and the "architect of the atomic bomb".