SSC CGL 2020 PYQ — Question 46

SSC CGL - 3rd March 2020 Shift 1 • General Awareness • Q46

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

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Correct answer: C

Explanation

The correct answer is option 3 i.e. James Chadwick.

James Chadwick Sir James Chadwick, CH, FRS was a British physicist who was awarded the 1935 Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery of the neutron in 1932. 
  In 1941, he wrote the final draft of the MAUD Report under Manhattan Project, which inspired the U.S. government to begin serious atomic bomb research efforts.