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William Henry Bragg | |
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 Portrait by the Nobel foundation (c. 1915) | |
| Born | 2 July 1862 Wigton, Cumberland, England, United Kingdom |
| Died | 12 March 1942 (aged 79) London, England, UK |
| Education | Trinity College, Cambridge |
| Known for | X-ray diffraction X-ray spectroscopy Bragg's law Bragg peak Bragg–Gray cavity theory Bragg–Paul Pulsator |
| Awards | Nobel Prize in Physics (1915) Barnard Medal (1915) Matteucci Medal (1915) Rumford Medal (1916) Copley Medal (1930) Faraday Medal (1936) John J. Carty Award (1939) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Physics |
| Institutions | University of Adelaide University of Leeds University College London Royal Institution |
| Notable students | W. L. Bragg Kathleen Lonsdale William Thomas Astbury John Desmond Bernal John Burton Cleland |
| Notes | |
He is the father of Lawrence Bragg. Father and son jointly won the Nobel Prize. | |
Sir William Henry Bragg OM KBE FRS (2 July 1862 – 12 March 1942) was an English physicist, chemist, mathematician, and active sportsman who uniquely[1] shared a Nobel Prize with his son Lawrence Bragg – the 1915 Nobel Prize in Physics: "for their services in the analysis of crystal structure by means of X-rays".[2] The mineral Braggite is named after him and his son. He was knighted in 1920.
- ^ This is still a unique accomplishment, because no other parent-child combination has yet shared a Nobel Prize (in any field). In several cases, a parent has won a Nobel Prize, and then years later, the child has won the Nobel Prize for separate research. An example of this is with Marie Curie and her daughter Irène Joliot-Curie, who are the only mother-daughter pair. Several father-son pairs have won two separate Nobel Prizes.
- ^ "The Nobel Prize in Physics 1915". Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 9 October 2008.