William Lawrence Bragg

William Bragg
Sir; William Bragg; CH OBE MC FRS
	William L. Bragg in 1915
Born	William Lawrence Bragg; 31 Mairch 1890; Adelaide, Sooth Australie
Dee'd	1 Julie 1971 (aged 81); Waldringfield, Ipswich, Suffolk, Ingland
Naitionality	Breetish
Eddication	St Peter's College, Adelaide
Alma mater	Varsity o Adelaide; Trinity College, Cambridge;
Kent for	X-ray diffraction; Bragg's law
Awairds	Nobel Prize in Pheesics (1915); Barnard Medal (1915); Matteucci Medal (1915); FRS (1921); Hughes Medal (1931); Ryal Medal (1946); Roebling Medal (1948); Copley Medal (1966);
	Scientific career
Fields	Pheesics
Institutions	Varsity o Manchester; Varsity o Cambridge;
Academic advisors	J. J. Thomson; W. H. Bragg;
Doctoral students	John Crank; Ronald Wilfred Gurney; Alex Stokes;
	Notes He wis the son o W.H. Bragg. Note that the PhD did nae exist at Cambridge till 1919, an sae J. J. Thomson an W.H. Bragg war his equivalent mentors.

Sir William Lawrence Bragg CH, OBE, MC, FRS^[1] (31 Mairch 1890 – 1 Julie 1971) wis an Australie-born Breetish pheesicist an X-ray crystallografer, discoverer (1912) o Bragg's law o X-ray diffraction, which is basic for the determination o crystal structur. He wis jynt winner (wi his faither, William Henry Bragg) o the Nobel Prize in Pheesics in 1915: "For thair services in the analysis o creestal structur bi means o X-ray",^[3] an important step in the development o X-ray crystallografie.

References

↑ ^a ^b Phillips, D. (1979). "William Lawrence Bragg. 31 March 1890-1 July 1971". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 25: 74–26. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1979.0003. JSTOR 769842.
↑ "Alexander Stokes". The Telegraph. 28 Februar 2003. Retrieved 16 Januar 2016.
↑ "The Nobel Prize in Physics 1915". Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 9 October 2008.