William Henry Bragg

Sir William Henry Bragg OM KBE PRS[1] (2 Julie 1862 – 12 Mairch 1942) wis a Breetish pheesicist, chemist, mathematician an active sportsman wha uniquely[2] shared a Nobel Prize wi his son William Lawrence Bragg – the 1915 Nobel Prize in Pheesics: "for thair services in the analysis o creestal structur bi means o X-rays".[3] The mineral Braggite is named efter him an his son. He wis knichtit in 1920.


Sir William Henry Bragg

OM KBE PRS
Born2 Julie 1862(1862-07-02)
Wigton, Cumberland, Ingland
Dee'd12 Mairch 1942(1942-03-12) (aged 79)
Lunnon, Ingland
ResidenceIngland
NaitionalityBreetish
Alma materTrinity College, Cambridge
Kent forX-ray diffraction
Bragg Curve
AwairdsNobel Prize in Pheesics (1915)
Barnard Medal (1915)
Matteucci Medal (1915)
Rumford Medal (1916)
Copley Medal (1930)
Faraday Medal (1936)
John J. Carty Awaird (1939)
Scientific career
FieldsPheesics
InstitutionsVarsity o Adelaide
Varsity o Leeds
University College London
Royal Institution
Academic advisorsJ. J. Thomson
Notable studentsW. L. Bragg
Kathleen Lonsdale
William Thomas Astbury
John Desmond Bernal
John Burton Cleland
Notes
He is the faither o William Lawrence Bragg. Faither an son jyntly wan the Nobel Prize.

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