Lawrence Bragg

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Sir William Lawrence Bragg. (1890 – 1971). Australian-born British physicist and X-ray crystallographer.

Key Ideas

  • Bragg's law of X-ray diffraction (1912), which is basic for the determination of crystal structure.
  • Nobel Prize in Physics in 1915: X-ray crystallography.

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