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Lawrence Bragg
Lawrence Bragg | |
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 Bragg in 1915 | |
| Born | William Lawrence Bragg 31 March 1890 |
| Died | 1 July 1971 (aged 81) Waldringfield, Suffolk, England |
| Education | St Peter's College, Adelaide |
| Alma mater | University of Adelaide Trinity College, Cambridge |
| Known for | |
| Spouse |
Alice Hopkinson (m. 1921) |
| Father | William Henry Bragg |
| Relatives | Charles Todd (grandfather) |
| Awards |
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| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Physics |
| Institutions | |
| Academic advisors | J. J. Thomson William Henry Bragg |
| Doctoral students | |
| Other notable students | William Cochran |
| 5th Cavendish Professor of Physics | |
| In office 1938–1953 | |
| Preceded by | J. J. Thomson |
| Succeeded by | Nevill Francis Mott |
| 3rd Director of National Physical Laboratory | |
| In office 1937–1938 | |
| Preceded by | Frank Edward Smith (acting) |
| Succeeded by | Charles Galton Darwin |
Sir William Lawrence Bragg (31 March 1890 – 1 July 1971), known as Lawrence Bragg, was an Australian-born British physicist and X-ray crystallographer, discoverer (1912) of Bragg's law of X-ray diffraction, which is basic for the determination of crystal structure. He was joint recipient (with his father, William Henry Bragg) of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1915, "For their services in the analysis of crystal structure by means of X-rays";[4] an important step in the development of X-ray crystallography.[5]
Bragg was knighted in 1941.[4] As of 2024, he is the youngest ever Nobel laureate in physics, or in any science category, having received the award at the age of 25.[6] Bragg was the director of the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, when the discovery of the structure of DNA was reported by James D. Watson and Francis Crick in February 1953.
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- ^ a b "The Nobel Prize in Physics 1915". Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 26 April 2018.
- ^ Stoddart, Charlotte (1 March 2022). "Structural biology: How proteins got their close-up". Knowable Magazine. doi:10.1146/knowable-022822-1. Retrieved 25 March 2022.
- ^ "Facts on the Nobel Prize in Physics". Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 16 January 2016.
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