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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.
Sir Lawrence Bragg (born March 31, 1890, Adelaide, S.Aus., Austl.—died July 1, 1971, Ipswich, Suffolk, Eng.) was an Australian-born British physicist and X-ray crystallographer, discoverer (1912) of the Bragg law of X-ray diffraction, which is basic for the determination of crystal structure.
W. Lawrence Bragg, who had been elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1921, was Director of the National Physical Laboratory in 1937-1938 and Cavendish Professor of Experimental Physics, Cambridge, from 1938 to 1953. He was Chairman of the Frequency Advisory Committee from 1958 to 1960.
Lawrence Bragg discovered how to ‘see’ the positions of atoms in solids. His discovery has had an enormous impact on chemistry, biology, and mineralogy. Bragg showed how X-rays passing through a crystal collect information allowing the crystal’s atomic structure to be deduced.
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1915. Born: 31 March 1890, Adelaide, Australia. Died: 1 July 1971, Ipswich, United Kingdom. Affiliation at the time of the award: Victoria University, Manchester, United Kingdom. Prize motivation: “for their services in the analysis of crystal structure by means of X-rays”. Prize share: 1/2.
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Sir Lawrence Bragg, who died on July 1 1971 aged 81, had the unique distinction of having himself created the science to which he devoted his life's work, and lived long enough to experience its revolutionary impact, first on inorganic chemistry and mineralogy, then on metallurgy, and finally on organic chemistry and biochemistry.
