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William Lawrence Bragg
Sir William Lawrence Bragg was an Australian-born British X-ray crystallographer who uniquely shared a Nobel Prize with his father William Henry Bragg – the 1915 Nobel Prize in Physics "for their services in the analysis of crystal structure by means of X-rays," an important step in the development of X-ray crystallography.
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science · Australian-born British X-ray crystallographer (1890–1971) · mathematician · physicist · university teacher · crystallographer · chemist · Nobel Prize winner · also William Lawrence Bragg, Lawrence Bragg, Bragg
Born 31 March 1890 · Died 1 July 1971 · Q131729
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1971· 2 entries
Died 1971-07-01.
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Bragg died on 1 July 1971 at a hospital near his home in Waldringfield, Ipswich, at the age of 81.
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1970· 1 entry
And was named after both William and Lawrence Bragg
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1967· 1 entry
Won August Wilhelm von Hofmann Medal (1967).
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1966· 1 entry
Won Copley Medal (1966).
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1965· 1 entry
At the Royal Institution by David Chilton Phillips and his coworkers, with the computations on the 9,040 reflections performed on the digital computer at the University of London, which greatly facilitated the work
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1961· 1 entry
Awarded Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi (1961).
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1960· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctor of the University of New Zealand (1960).
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1957· 1 entry
Awarded Maxwell Lecture (1957).
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1955· 1 entry
Awarded X-ray badge (1955).
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1953· 1 entry
The Braggs moved into the elegant flat for the Resident Professor in the Royal Institution in London, the position his father had occupied when he died
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1952· 1 entry
Awarded Guthrie Lecture (1952).
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1948· 1 entry
Won Roebling Medal (1948).
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1947· 1 entry
Persuaded the Medical Research Council (MRC) to support what he described as the "gallant attempt" to determine protein structure as the Laboratory of Molecular Biology, initially consisting of Perutz, John Kendrew an
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1946· 2 entries
Won Royal Medal (1946).
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Awarded doctor honoris causa from the University of Paris (1946).
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1942· 2 entries
Won Dalton Medal (1942).
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Bragg served for six months as Scientific Liaison Officer to Canada
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1934· 2 entries
Won Royal Society Bakerian Medal (1934).
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And 1961 Lawrence had delivered the Royal Institution Christmas Lecture and since 1938 he had been Professor of Natural Philosophy in the Institution, delivering an annual lecture
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1931· 1 entry
Won Hughes Medal (1931).
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1930· 1 entry
Became deeply disturbed while considering a job offer from Imperial College London
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1927· 1 entry
Career landmark: president (1927–1929).
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1921· 1 entry
Bragg married Alice Hopkinson (1899–1989), a cousin of a Cecil Hopkinson (1891–1917), who shared rooms with Bragg, and was one of his closest friends whilst they were both studying at Cambridge
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1919· 2 entries
When Ernest Rutherford, a long-time family friend, moved to Cambridge, Lawrence Bragg replaced him as Langworthy Professor of Physics at the Victoria University of Manchester and was elected to membership of the Manchest
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Career landmark: Langworthy Professor (1919–1937).
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1915· 5 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics — for their services in the analysis of crystal structure by means of X-rays.
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Physics (1915).
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Won Matteucci Medal (1915).
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Lawrence Bragg on Nobelprize
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Was seconded to the Royal Engineers to develop a method to localise enemy artillery from the boom of their firing
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1914· 2 entries
Bragg became a Fellow and Lecturer in Natural Sciences at Trinity College
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His son, David, is buried in the Parish of the Ascension Burial Ground in Cambridge, his grave is within a few paces of that of Bragg's close friend, Rudolph Cecil Hopkinson, who incurred a severe head wound in the 1914–19 war and died a few months after being invalided back to the UK.
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1912· 2 entries
As a first-year research student at Cambridge, W
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With First Class Honours in the Natural Sciences Tripos
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1904· 1 entry
Studied at St Peter's College (1901–1904).
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1901· 1 entry
Studied at Queen's College, North Adelaide (1900–1901).
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1900· 1 entry
Bragg enrolled at Queen's School, North Adelaide, followed by five years at St Peter's College, Adelaide
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1890· 1 entry
Born 1890-03-31.
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1885· 1 entry
And Gwendoline Todd (1869–1929), daughter of Charles Todd, government astronomer of South Australia
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