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Lawrence Bragg

This article is about the Australian-born physicist. For his father and fellow Nobel Prize winner, see William Henry Bragg.

Sir
Lawrence Bragg
CH OBE MC FRS
Bragg in 1915
Born
William Lawrence Bragg

(1890-03-31)31 March 1890
Adelaide, Colony of South Australia
Died1 July 1971(1971-07-01) (aged 81)
Waldringfield, Suffolk, England
Education
Alma mater
Known forBragg's law (1913)
Spouse
Alice Hopkinson
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(m. 1921)​
Children4, including Stephen
FatherWilliam Henry Bragg
RelativesCharles Todd (grandfather)
Awards
Honours
Scientific career
Fields
Institutions
Academic advisors
Doctoral students
Other notable students
5th Cavendish Professor of Physics
In office
1938–1953
Preceded byErnest Rutherford
Succeeded byNevill Francis Mott
3rd Director of the National Physical Laboratory
In office
1937–1938
Preceded byFrank Edward Smith (acting)
Succeeded byCharles Galton Darwin
Portrait of William Lawrence Bragg taken when he was around 40 years old.

Sir William Lawrence Bragg (31 March 1890 – 1 July 1971) was an Australian-born British physicist who shared the 1915 Nobel Prize in Physics with his father William Henry Bragg "for their services in the analysis of crystal structure by means of X-rays",[3] an important step in the development of X-ray crystallography.[4]

As of 2024, he is the youngest ever Nobel laureate in physics, or in any science category, having received the award at the age of 25.[5] 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.

  1. ^ "National Library of Wales: From Warfare to Welfare 1939–59". Archived from the original on 18 November 2015. Retrieved 17 November 2015.
  2. ^ "Alexander Stokes". The Telegraph. 28 February 2003. Retrieved 16 January 2016.
  3. ^ "The Nobel Prize in Physics 1915". Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 26 April 2018.
  4. ^ Stoddart, Charlotte (1 March 2022). "Structural biology: How proteins got their close-up". Knowable Magazine. doi:10.1146/knowable-022822-1. Retrieved 25 March 2022.
  5. ^ "Facts on the Nobel Prize in Physics". Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 16 January 2016.

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