Facts: - death place: waldringfield , ipswich , suffolk , england - doctoral students: john crank ronald wilfred gurney alex stokes - prizes: nobel -lrb- 1915 -rrb- matteucci medal -lrb- 1915 -rrb- frs -lrb- prize 1921 -rrb- hughes medal -lrb- 1931 -rrb- royal medal -lrb- in 1946 -rrb- roebling medal -lrb- 1948 -rrb- copley medal -lrb- physics 1966 -rrb- -lrb- 1915 -rrb- barnard medal - known for: x-ray diffraction bragg 's law - caption: william l. bragg in 1915 - footnotes: he that the phd did not exist at cambridge until 1919 was , and so j. j. thomson and w.h. bragg were the his equivalent mentors . son of w.h. bragg . note - fields: physics - death date: 01 july 1971 - doctoral advisor: j. j. thomson w.h. bragg - work institution: university of manchester university of cambridge - birth date: 31 march 1890 - name: sir william lawrence bragg - image size: 220px - nationality: british - image: wl-bragg . jpg - birth place: adelaide , south australia - alma mater: university of adelaide university of cambridge Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of william lawrence bragg .
sir william lawrence bragg -lrb- 31 march 1890 -- 1 july 1971 -rrb- was an australian-born british physicist and x-ray crystallographer , discoverer -lrb- 1912 -rrb- of the bragg law of x-ray diffraction , which is basic for the determination of crystal structure .he was joint winner -lrb- with his father , william henry bragg -rrb- of the nobel prize in physics in 1915 : '' '' for their services in the analysis of crystal structure by means of x-ray '' '' an important step in the development of x-ray crystallography .bragg was knighted in 1941 .as of 2014 , lawrence bragg is the youngest ever nobel laureate in physics , having received the award at the age of 25 years .-lrb- the youngest of all nobel laureates is malala yousafzai in 2014 at the age of 17 -rrb- bragg was the director of the cavendish laboratory , cambridge , when the discovery of the structure of dna was reported by james d. watson and francis crick in february 1953