The Nobel Prize in Physics 1915
Awarded on: 1915-11-12
"for their services in the analysis of crystal structure by means of X-rays"
Affiliations:
- Victoria University – Manchester, United Kingdom
William Lawrence Bragg
Born: 1890-03-31 in Adelaide, Australia
Gender: male
Field: Australian-born British X-ray crystallographer (1890–1971)
Biography
Sir William Lawrence Bragg was an Australian-born British X-ray crystallographer who uniquely shared a Nobel Prize with his father William Henry 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.