Lawrence Bragg
Australian-born British physicist and X-ray crystallographer · United Kingdom · Scientists · Lived 1890 to 1971 · aged 81
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Something wrong?At 25, he became the youngest Nobel laureate in science - a record that still stands - and decades later ran the lab where Watson and Crick cracked DNA.
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Born in Australia in 1890, Lawrence Bragg moved to Britain and turned his father's curiosity about X-rays into a shared obsession. Together they decoded how crystals scatter light, work that won them the 1915 Nobel Prize in Physics when Lawrence was just 25. He went on to direct the Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge, where in February 1953 he oversaw the moment James Watson and Francis Crick announced the double helix. He died in 1971, having spent a lifetime watching invisible structures reveal themselves.
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