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Chadwick

[chad-wik]

noun

  1. Florence (May), 1918–1995, U.S. long-distance swimmer.

  2. Henry, 1824–1908, U.S. sportswriter and baseball pioneer, born in England.

  3. George Whitefield, 1854–1931, U.S. composer.

  4. James, 1891–1974, English physicist: discoverer of the neutron; Nobel Prize 1935.



Chadwick

/ ˈtʃædwɪk /

noun

  1. Sir Edwin. 1800–90, British social reformer, known for his Report on the Sanitary Condition of the Labouring Population of Great Britain (1842)

  2. Sir James. 1891–1974, British physicist: discovered the neutron (1932): Nobel prize for physics 1935

  3. Lynn ( Russell ). 1914–2003, British sculptor in metal

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Chadwick

  1. British physicist who in 1932 discovered the neutron. For this work, he received the 1935 Nobel Prize for chemistry.

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Taylor Simone Ledward, who was married to Chadwick Boseman before he died in 2020, will split his $2.3-million estate with the actor’s parents.

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Viola Davis sincerely praises co-star Chadwick Boseman five years after his death as the ‘Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom’ Oscar-nominated actor gets a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

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At the Walk of Fame ceremony honoring her late husband on Thursday in Hollywood, Chadwick Boseman’s widow shared the underpinnings of the actor’s creative success.

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Viola Davis made her feelings quite clear Thursday on the Hollywood Walk of Fame: She misses Chadwick Boseman almost unbearably.

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“It’s best to use all of life. Leave death nothing but the dregs. Nothing but a burned-out castle. And Chadwick was a castle,” Davis told the crowd that assembled in Hollywood despite the threat of rain.

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