1919 June-Rutherford creates oxygen from nitrogen. 1920 Rutherford speculates on the existence of the neutron at the Royal Society. 1931 November-Urey discovers deuterium. 1932 February-Chadwick discovers the neutron. 1933 April-Born, Courant, Franck and many other scientists are compelled to leave the University of Göttingen because of their “Jewish physics”. October-Szilard recollects that “It occurred to me in October, 1933 that a chain reaction might be set up if an element could be found that would emit two neutrons when it swallowed one neutron.” This idea became a classified British patent in 1935 before the fission was discovered.