In 1915, William Lawrence Bragg won the Physics Noble Prize.
Date of Birth: 31 March 1890.
Died: 1 July 1971.
Nationality: British.
Education: St Peter’s College, Adelaide, University of Adelaide Trinity College, Cambridge.
Known as: X-ray diffraction, X-ray spectroscopy, X-ray microscopy, Bubble raft, Bragg’s law, Bragg-Gray cavity theory, Bragg-Williams approximation.
Awards: Nobel Prize in Physics (1915), Barnard Medal (1915), Matteucci Medal (1915), Fellow of the Royal Society (1921), Hughes Medal (1931), Dalton Medal (1942), International Member of the American Philosophical Society (1943), Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences (1945), Royal Medal (1946), Roebling Medal (1948), International Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1959), Copley Medal (1966).
Fields: Physics.
