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Portrait of William Lawrence Bragg taken when he was around 40 years old. 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.
James Govett to Lawrence Bragg W.L. (National Archives: BRAGG/54A/46) Correspondence in 1966 re offer to do his portrait for notable Australians show at Qantas Gallery (files at Royal Institution of Great Britain) Matheson, Anne. "Princess Anne's escort: Australian has painted portrait of the young Earl of Caithness".
Roebling Medal awardees include two Nobel Prize winners, Lawrence Bragg and Linus Pauling. Many of his manuscripts, photographs, and publications, can be found in the Roebling collections at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey , and at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York .
Sir William Henry Bragg (2 July 1862 – 12 March 1942) was an English physicist, chemist, mathematician, and active sportsman who uniquely [1] shared a Nobel Prize with his son Lawrence Bragg – the 1915 Nobel Prize in Physics: "for their services in the analysis of crystal structure by means of X-rays". [2]
Wilhelm Röntgen, India, 1995. Stamps depicting individual crystallographers are sometimes issued by countries to commemorate the birth or death anniversaries of their significant national crystallographers, [12] For example, on August 6, 1996, the British postal service (Royal Mail) issued a stamp honouring Dorothy Hodgkin, a pioneer of protein crystallography (Great Britain's first female ...
William Henry Bragg: July 2, 1862 Wigton, United Kingdom: March 12, 1942 London, England 1914, 1915: W.H.Bragg nominated for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry too [94] Shared the 1915 Nobel Prize in Physics [y]. [95] 1915: Lawrence Bragg: March 31, 1890 Adelaide, Australia: July 1, 1971 Waldringfield, United Kingdom: 1915: Charles Galton Darwin ...
William Henry Bragg (physicist, chemist and mathematician) William Lawrence Bragg (physicist) Harold Hopkins; Harold Edwin Hurst (Hydrologist whose study of the Nile led to a better understanding of statistics with applications in dam design and finance.) Sir Alec Jeffreys (geneticist and developer of genetic fingerprinting) (DNA) Roger Mason
William Lawrence Bragg (awarded Nobel prize in 1915, along with his father, William Henry Bragg), for X-ray crystallography (their work led to the first discoveries of DNA and protein structures). Director and Langworthy Professor of Physics (1919–1937).