Lawrence Bragg

Who is this?

Sir William Lawrence Bragg (31 March 1890 – 1 July 1971) was an Australian-born British X-ray crystallographer who uniquely shared a Nobel Prize with his father William Henry Bragg – the 1915 Nobel Prize in Physics "for their services in the analysis of crystal structure by means of X-rays," an important step in the development of X-ray crystallography. As of 2025, Bragg is the youngest ever Nobel laureate in physics, or in any science category, having received the award at the age of 25. Bragg was the director of the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, when James D. Watson and Francis Crick reported the discovery of the structure of DNA in February 1953.

Career

1. 1890
   Born
2. 1948
   Won Roebling Medal
3. 1966
   Won Copley Medal
4. 1971
   Passed away
5. Member of Royal Society
6. Member of German Academy of Sciences at Berlin
7. Member of Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
8. Won Fellow of the Royal Society
9. Won Military Cross
10. Won Officer of the Order of the British Empire
11. Notable work: X-ray diffraction

Trivia

• •Place of birth: Adelaide
• •Citizenship: United Kingdom, Australia
• •Known as: mathematician, physicist, university teacher, crystallographer
• •Spouse: Alice Grace Jenny Hopkinson