# William Henry Bragg

> He's the father half of the only parent-child duo to share a Nobel Prize — 1915 Physics, for cracking how X-rays could map the hidden architecture of crystals.

*British scientist (1862–1942)*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Scientist ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631))
- **Category:** Scientists
- **Country:** United Kingdom
- **Born:** 1862-07-02
- **Died:** 1942-03-12
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

William Henry Bragg was born 2 July 1862 in Britain. By the early 1900s he'd turned his attention to the new phenomenon of X-rays, probing how they scattered through matter. Working alongside his son Lawrence, he developed techniques to analyze crystal structure by measuring X-ray diffraction — a method that let scientists see atomic arrangements for the first time. In 1915 the Royal Swedish Academy awarded them both the Nobel Prize in Physics for those services, a landmark in what became X-ray crystallography. He died 12 March 1942, having opened a window onto the molecular world.

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## Topics
#Scientists, #Scientist, #Physics, #Chemistry, #Mathematics, #United Kingdom, #Europe, #19th Century

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