William Lawrence Bragg - Nobel Prize in Physics — 1915
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William Lawrence Bragg

Prize
Nobel Prize in Physics — 1915
for their services in the analysis of crystal structure by means of X-rays
Together with: William Henry Bragg
Citizenship
Australia Australia United Kingdom United Kingdom
Languages
English
date of birth
3/31/1890
place of birth
Adelaide
date of death
7/1/1971
place of death
Ipswich
Lived
81 years
educated at
  • Queen's College, North Adelaide
    • end time: 1901
    • start time: 1900
  • St Peter's College
    • start time: 1901
    • end time: 1904
  • Australian National University
  • University of Leeds
  • University of Adelaide
  • Trinity College
  • University of Cambridge
member of
  • National Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 1945
  • Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
    • start time: 10/1/1951
  • Royal Society of Edinburgh
  • German Academy of Sciences at Berlin
  • Royal Society of London
  • Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
  • Indian National Science Academy
  • Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society
  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities
position held
  • Langworthy Professor
    • end time: 1937
    • start time: 1919
  • president
    • start time: 1927
    • end time: 1929
doctoral student
  • John Turton Randall
  • John Crank
  • William H. Taylor
  • Samuel Tolansky
  • Bertram Eugene Warren
  • Max Perutz
  • Peter Lynn Pratt
employer
  • University of Cambridge
  • Victoria University of Manchester
  • University of Manchester
field of work
  • X-ray spectroscopy
  • X-ray crystallography
  • physics
occupation
  • physicist
  • chemist
  • Nobel Prize winner
  • mathematician
  • university teacher
  • crystallographer
notable work
  • X-ray diffraction
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