biography
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Bragg, Sir (William) Lawrence
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| lived:
| (1890–1971)
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| biography:
| Physicist, born in Adelaide, South Australia, the son of Sir William Henry Bragg. Father and son shared the 1915 Nobel Prize for Physics for their work on X-ray crystallography. He was professor of physics at Manchester University (1919–37) and headed the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge (1938–53), where he supported Crick and Watson in their work, using X-ray crystal studies to deduce the helical structure of DNA. He was knighted in 1941, and was also director of the Royal Institution (1954–65). |
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