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X-ray badge (9) |
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| complete name: |
William Lawrence Bragg |
| nobel prize: |
physics |
| award year: |
1915 |
| together with: |
William Henry Bragg |
| prize share: |
Prize share: 1/2 |
| rational: |
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1915 was awarded jointly to Sir William Henry Bragg and William Lawrence Bragg "for their services in the analysis of crystal structure by means of X-rays." |
| biography: |
Biography |
| laureate facts: |
Facts |
| laureate lecture: |
Lecture |
| given name: |
William |
| family name: |
Bragg |
| occupation: |
physicist |
| occupation: |
mathematician |
| occupation: |
university teacher |
| field of work: |
physics |
| work location: |
University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom |
| description: |
William 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 winner (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-ray", an important step in the development of X-ray crystallography. Bragg was knighted in 1941. As of 2016, Lawrence Bragg is the youngest ever Nobel Laureate in physics, having received the award at the age of 25 years. (The youngest of all Nobel Laureates is Malala Yousafzai in 2014 at the age of 17.) 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. |
| image copyright: |
Photo from the Nobel Foundation archive. |
| image citation: |
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1915. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Media AB 2018. <https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1915/summary/> |
| date birth: |
1890 |
| date death: |
1971 |
| usual name: |
William Bragg |
