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One thing science and human progress accomplished on this date.
1891
James Chadwick, who discovered the neutron, was born near Manchester, England. His 1932 finding completed the basic picture of the atom's core and reshaped physics. It won him the Nobel Prize and became central to understanding nuclear energy.
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