biography
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Bragg, Sir William (Henry)
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| lived:
| (1862–1942)
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| biography:
| Physicist, born in Wigton, Cumbria, NW England, UK. With his son, William Lawrence Bragg, he founded X-ray crystallography. After studying at Cambridge, he became professor of mathematics at Adelaide, Australia (1886), and professor at Leeds in 1909, where from 1912 he worked in conjunction with his son. They were awarded a joint Nobel Prize for Physics in 1915, the only father–son partnership to share this honour. Bragg moved to University College London the same year, and became director of the Royal Institution in 1923. |
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