PHYSICS: Sir William Bragg - Leeds, UK
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This blue plaque is on the side of the Parkinson Building of Leeds University where Sir William was professor of Physics.
Waymark Code: WMV8TT
Location: Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 03/15/2017
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SIR WILLIAM BRAGG (1862 - 1942)
CAVENDISH PROFESSOR OF PHYSICS AT
THE UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS - 1909 - 1915
DEVELOPED HERE THE FIRST X-RAY
SPECTROMETER AND PIONEERED THE
X-RAY ANALYSIS OF CRYSTAL STRUCTURES
JOINT NOBEL LAUREATE FOR PHYSICS
IN 1915 WITH HIS SON
SIR LAWRENCE BRAGG
"Sir William Henry Bragg OM KBE PRS (2 July 1862 – 12 March 1942) was a British physicist, chemist, mathematician and active sportsman who uniquely shared a Nobel Prize with his son William Lawrence Bragg – the 1915 Nobel Prize in Physics: "for their services in the analysis of crystal structure by means of X-rays". The mineral Braggite is named after him and his son. He was knighted in 1920."
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Field of Accomplishment: Physics
Year of Award: 1915
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