William and Lawrence Bragg, Father and Son
Subtitle: The Most Extraordinary Collaboration in Science
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA; Oxford University Press
Published: December 21, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 500
ISBN-13: 9780199235209
Subjects: Biography: general; History of science; Science; Science/Mathematics; General; Science / Physics; Crystallography; Physics; Australia; Biography; Great Britain; Nobel Prize winners; Physicists; World War, 1914-1918
Description: This joint biography is of William and Lawrence Bragg, who changed all of science in the 20th-century with the development of X-ray crystallography, and by mentoring the mid-century discovery of the structure of DNA. Their stories are vivid examples of science teaching and research in a colonial setting (Australia).