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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.
Bragg was always known as
Sir Lawrence Bragg
, and his father was Sir
William Bragg
. Lawrence Bragg was educated in
Adelaide
,
Australia
and in England. He was awarded the
Military Cross
in
World War I
.
Lawrence Bragg discovered (1912) the Bragg law of X-ray
diffraction
, the basis of
X-ray crystallography
. He was joint winner (with his father,
Sir William Bragg
) of the
Nobel Prize for Physics
in 1915.
To date, Lawrence Bragg is the youngest
Nobel Laureate
. He was the director of the
Cavendish Laboratory
, Cambridge, when the discovery of the structure of DNA was made by
James D. Watson
and
Francis Crick
in February 1953.
He was elected an
FRS
in 1921.
[1]
He was
knighted
by
George VI
in 1941, and received both the
Copley Medal
and the
Royal Medal
of the
Royal Society
.
- ↑
Hunter G.K. 2004
Light is a messenger
. Oxford:OUP
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