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[CHADWICK, Sir James (1891-1974)]. Joliot–Halban–Kowarski medal awarded to Sir James Chadwick. Circa 1942. Bronze medal engraved with the images and names of Antoine Henri Becquerel, Pierre and Marie Curie, Albert Einstein, Ernest Rutherford, Niels Bohr, Sir James Chadwick, Irene and Frederic Joliot-Curie, Enrico Fermi, and Otto Hahn on one side and a stylized depiction of a nuclear chain reaction on the other; Sir James Chadwick’s name and Nobel Laureate title with date engraved on medal’s edge ca. 2000 by permission of Judith Chadwick, daughter of Sir James Chadwick. Diam. 25mm. This medal was stamped to commemorate the first nuclear chain reaction. The research of Sir James Chadwick, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1935 for his discovery of the neutron three years earlier, was a key figure in the development of the atomic bomb, and was present at the Trinity nuclear test on 16 July 1945. Previously sold by Glendining’s London on 15 November 1995.