Sir William Lawrence Bragg

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was an Australian-born British physicist and Nobel Prize winner. Bragg shared the 1915 Nobel Prize in physics with his father, British physicist Sir William Henry Bragg, for their work in establishing X-ray crystallography, the study of crystal structures with X rays. Born ....

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.... Physics. He stayed at Cambridge until 1953, when he moved to the Royal Institution, London, as director of the Davy-Faraday Research Laboratory, a position once held by his father. He stayed at the Royal Institution until his retirement in 1966. The work that brought the Braggs fame was based on the phenomenon of X-ray diffraction in crystals, discovered in 1912 by Max Theodor Felix von Laue. Although the wave nature of X rays and the order of magnitude of their wavelength had been established, there were no methods developed to interpret th ....