Editing Cavendish Laboratory (section)

==Nuclear physics==
In World War II the laboratory carried out research for the [[MAUD Committee]], part of the British [[Tube Alloys]] project of research into the [[atomic bomb]]. Researchers included [[Nicholas Kemmer]], [[Alan Nunn May]], [[Anthony French]], [[Samuel Curran]] and the French scientists including [[Lew Kowarski]] and [[Hans von Halban]]. Several transferred to Canada in 1943; the [[Montreal Laboratory]] and some later to the [[Chalk River Laboratories]].
The production of [[plutonium]] and [[neptunium]] by bombarding [[uranium-238]] with neutrons was predicted in 1940 by two teams working independently: [[Egon Bretscher]] and [[Norman Feather]] at the Cavendish and [[Edwin M. McMillan]] and [[Philip Abelson]] at [[Berkeley Radiation Laboratory]] at the [[University of California, Berkeley]].