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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
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.