The heart receives its own supply of blood from a network of arteries, called the coronary arteries. Two major coronary arteries branch off from the aorta near the point where the aorta and the left ventricle meet:
Walton, Ernest Thomas Sinton - Student Encyclopedia (Ages 11 and up) (1903-95), Irish physicist. Born in County Waterford, Ireland, Walton, with Sir John D. Cockcroft, received the 1951 Nobel prize in physics for the development of the first nuclear-particle accelerator.
2 Answers 2. Chadwick didn't discover the neutron on purpose, of course. After the discovery of the nucleus by Rutherford in 1911, alpha particles were used to probe its structure. These kind of experiments were pioneered by Rutherford himself (as an example, he discovered in 1917 that the nitrogen nucleus contains hydrogen nuclei, i.e. protons).