William Lawrence Bragg
(1890-1971)
Australian-born British physicist and X-ray crystallographer
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Sir William Lawrence Bragg, CH, OBE, MC, FRS (31 March 1890 – 1 July 1971) 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-ray"; an important step in the development of X-ray crystallography.
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31 March 1890 North Adelaide, South Australia
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1 July 1971 (aged 81) Waldringfield, Ipswich, Suffolk, England
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