Lawrence Bragg

Sir William Lawrence Bragg CH OBE MC FRS (31 March 1890 – 1 July 1971) was an Australian-born British physicist and X-ray crystallographer who won the 1915 Nobel Prize in Physics with his father Sir William Bragg.

Personal life
Bragg was always known as Sir Lawrence Bragg, and his father was Sir William Bragg. Lawrence Bragg was educated in Adelaide, Australia and in England. He was awarded the Military Cross in World War I.

He died at a hospital near his home at Waldringfield, Ipswich, Suffolk. He was buried in Trinity College, Cambridge.

Career
Lawrence Bragg discovered (1912) the Bragg law of X-ray diffraction, the basis of X-ray crystallography. He was joint winner (with his father, Sir William Bragg) of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1915.

Winning the Nobel at the age of 25, Lawrence Bragg is the youngest Nobel Laureate. He was the director of the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, when the discovery of the structure of DNA was made by James D. Watson and Francis Crick in February 1953.

He was elected an FRS in 1921.Hunter G.K. 2004 Light is a messenger. Oxford:OUP He was knighted by George VI in 1941, and received both the Copley Medal and the Royal Medal of the Royal Society.

 References 

Other websites

 First press stories on DNA
 Nobelprize.org – The Nobel Prize for Physics in 1915
 A collection of digitised materials related to Bragg's and Linus Pauling's structural chemistry research.
 Key Participants: Sir William Lawrence Bragg – Linus Pauling and the Race for DNA: A Documentary History
 NOVA Episode on Photograph 51
 Oral History interview transcript with William Lawrence Bragg on 20 June 1969, American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library and Archives
 Bragg, Lawrence (Sir) (1890–1971) National Library of Australia, Trove, People and Organisation record for William Lawrence Bragg
The Nature of Things: Oil, Soap and Detergent, Ri Channel video, November 1959
The Nature of Things: Atoms and Molecules, Ri Channel video, October 1959
The Nature of Things: Solids, Liquids and Gases, Ri Channel video, November 1959

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