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John Chadwick was born on 21 May, 1920 in East Sheen, Richmond-upon-Thames, England, is an English linguist and classical scholar who helped decipher Linear B. Discover John Chadwick's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 78 years old?

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Occupation Linguist, scholar
Age 78 years old
Zodiac Sign Taurus
Born 21 May, 1920
Birthday 21 May
Birthplace East Sheen, Richmond-upon-Thames, England
Date of death 24 November, 1998
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Nationality Chad

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1920

John Chadwick, (21 May 1920 – 24 November 1998) was an English linguist and classical scholar who was most notable for the decipherment, with Michael Ventris, of Linear B.

John Chadwick was born at 18 Christ Church Road, Mortlake, Surrey, on 21 May 1920, the younger son of Margaret Pamela (née Bray) and Fred Chadwick, civil servant.

He was educated at St Paul's School and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.

1940

Chadwick volunteered for the Royal Navy in 1940 after completing the first year of his classics course at Cambridge.

At first he served in the Mediterranean as an ordinary seaman aboard the light cruiser HMS Coventry and saw action when his ship was torpedoed by an Italian submarine and dive-bombed.

1942

In 1942 he was sent ashore at Alexandria for an interview by the Chief of Naval Intelligence and was immediately assigned to intelligence duties in Egypt and promoted to Temporary Sub Lieutenant in the RNVR.

Thereafter he worked on Italian codes.

Chadwick deduced from some R/T traffic meant to be handled at Bletchley Park that a British submarine had been sunk near Taranto.

1944

In 1944, he was transferred to Bletchley Park ("Station X"), learned Japanese, and worked on reading the encoded messages sent by the Japanese naval representatives in Stockholm and Berlin.

1945

After the end of the war in 1945, he returned to his studies at Cambridge, graduating with First Class Honours in Classics Part II, with a distinction in his special subject, linguistics.

While studying at Corpus Christi College, he attempted, with some of his fellow students, to use cryptographic methods to decipher the "Minoan Linear Script B".

They were already aware at the time of the work of Michael Ventris.

They stopped working actively on the problem owing to a lack of published data from inscriptions.

1947

Chadwick married Joan Hill in 1947.

They had one son, Camden Chadwick.

1950

In 1950 he published his first scholarly work, an edition of The Medical Works of Hippocrates, co-authored with his cousin, William Neville Mann, a distinguished physician.

1952

After finishing his degree, he joined the staff of the Oxford Latin Dictionary before beginning a Classics lectureship at Cambridge in 1952.

In July that year he heard a radio broadcast by Michael Ventris about his work on Linear B and offered his help as "a mere philologist".

1956

The men began to collaborate on the progressive decipherment of Linear B, writing Documents in Mycenean Greek in 1956, following a controversial first paper three years earlier.

Chadwick's philological ideas were applied to Ventris's initial theory that Linear B was an early form of Greek rather than another Mediterranean language.

1958

After Ventris's death, Chadwick became the figurehead of the Linear B work, writing the accessible and popular book The Decipherment of Linear B in 1958 and revising Documents in Mycenaean Greek in 1978.

1984

He retired in 1984, by which time he had become the fourth (and last) Perceval Maitland Laurence Reader in Classics at Cambridge.

He continued his scholarship until his death, being an active member of several international societies and writing numerous popular and academic articles.

He was also a Fellow of the British Academy and of Downing College, Cambridge.