Lawrence Bragg
March 31, 1890 –July 1, 1971
Mathematician, Physicist, University teacher, Crystallographer, Chemist, Nobel Prize winner
Lived 81 years
- Born in
- Adelaide
- Passed away in
- Ipswich
Sir William Lawrence Bragg (31 March 1890 – 1 July 1971) 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.
As of 2025, Bragg is the youngest ever Nobel laureate in physics, or in any science category, having received the award at the age of 25. Bragg was the director of the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, when James D. Watson and Francis Crick reported the discovery of the structure of DNA in February 1953.
Notable works: X-ray diffraction Awards: Fellow of the Royal Society, Military Cross, Officer of the Order of the British Empire, Copley Medal, Roebling Medal, Royal Medal, Nobel Prize in Physics, Hughes Medal, Matteucci Medal, X-ray badge Education: University of Adelaide, Trinity College, University of Cambridge, Australian National University
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