William Henry Bragg
British scientist (1862–1942)
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William Henry Bragg figured out how to read crystal structures using X-rays, then won the 1915 Nobel Prize in Physics alongside his son Lawrence—a father-son Nobel first that defined the field of X-ray crystallography.
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Sir William Henry Bragg was a British X-ray crystallographer who uniquely shared a Nobel Prize with his son Lawrence 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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