William Henry Bragg

Sir William Henry Bragg OM KBE PRS
Born	(1862-07-02)2 July 1862 Wigton, Cumberland, United Kingdom
Died	12 March 1942(1942-03-12) (aged 79) London, United Kingdom
Nationality	British
Alma mater	Trinity College, Cambridge
Known for	X-ray diffraction Bragg peak
Awards	Nobel Prize in Physics (1915) Barnard Medal (1915) Matteucci Medal (1915) Rumford Medal (1916) Copley Medal (1930) Faraday Medal (1936) John J. Carty Award (1939)
Scientific career
Fields	Physics
Institutions	University of Adelaide University of Leeds University College London Royal Institution
Academic advisors	J. J. Thomson
Notable students	W. L. Bragg Kathleen Lonsdale William Thomas Astbury John Desmond Bernal John Burton Cleland
Notes
He is the father of Lawrence Bragg. Father and son jointly won the Nobel Prize.

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Sir William Henry Bragg OM KBE PRS^[1] (2 July 1862 – 12 March 1942) was a British physicist, chemist, mathematician and active sportsman.^[2]

Bragg shared a Nobel Prize with his son William Lawrence Bragg – the 1915 Nobel Prize in Physics.^[3]

1. ↑ Da c. Andrade, E. N.; Lonsdale, K. (1943). "William Henry Bragg. 1862-1942". Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society. 4 (12): 276. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1943.0003. JSTOR 769040. S2CID 202574479.
2. ↑ Da C. Andrade E.N. & Lonsdale K. 1943. William Henry Bragg. 1862-1942. Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society 4 (12): 276.
3. ↑ This is still a unique accomplishment, because no other parent-child combination has yet shared a Nobel Prize (in any field). In several cases, a parent has won a Nobel Prize, and then years later, the child has won the Nobel Prize for separate research. An example of this is with Marie Curie and her daughter Irène Joliot-Curie, who are the only mother-daughter pair. Several father-son pairs have won two separate Nobel Prizes.