Sir William Henry Bragg OM KBE PRS | |
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Born | 2 Julie 1862 Wigton, Cumberland, Ingland |
Dee'd | 12 Mairch 1942 Lunnon, Ingland | (aged 79)
Residence | Ingland |
Naitionality | Breetish |
Alma mater | Trinity College, Cambridge |
Kent for | X-ray diffraction Bragg Curve |
Awairds | Nobel Prize in Pheesics (1915) Barnard Medal (1915) Matteucci Medal (1915) Rumford Medal (1916) Copley Medal (1930) Faraday Medal (1936) John J. Carty Awaird (1939) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Pheesics |
Institutions | Varsity o Adelaide Varsity o Leeds University College London Royal Institution |
Academic advisors | J. J. Thomson |
Notable students | W. L. Bragg Kathleen Lonsdale William Thomas Astbury John Desmond Bernal John Burton Cleland |
Notes He is the faither o William Lawrence Bragg. Faither an son jyntly wan the Nobel Prize. |
Sir William Henry Bragg OM KBE PRS[1] (2 Julie 1862 – 12 Mairch 1942) wis a Breetish pheesicist, chemist, mathematician an active sportsman wha uniquely[2] shared a Nobel Prize wi his son William Lawrence Bragg – the 1915 Nobel Prize in Pheesics: "for thair services in the analysis o creestal structur bi means o X-rays".[3] The mineral Braggite is named efter him an his son. He wis knichtit in 1920.