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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.