British scientist (1862–1942)
People connected to 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.
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.
Sourced, dated quotes from William Henry Bragg
On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays we use the wave theory; on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays we think in streams of flying energy quanta or corpuscles.
No platforms connected yet.
The six component signals behind the Fame score, and their ranks across the leaderboards.
Similar profiles worth watching
United Kingdom
_(cropped).jpg?width=1200)
%2C_microbiologist_and_chemist_Wellcome_V0026980.jpg)