William Henry Bragg

William Henry Bragg
Portrait by the Nobel foundation (c. 1915)
Born(1862-07-02)2 July 1862
Wigton, Cumberland, England, United Kingdom
Died12 March 1942(1942-03-12) (aged 79)
London, England, UK
EducationTrinity College, Cambridge
Known forX-ray diffraction
X-ray spectroscopy
Bragg's law
Bragg peak
Bragg–Gray cavity theory
Bragg–Paul Pulsator
AwardsNobel 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
FieldsPhysics
InstitutionsUniversity of Adelaide
University of Leeds
University College London
Royal Institution
Notable studentsW. 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.

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ "The Nobel Prize in Physics 1915". Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 9 October 2008.

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