
4 0 c m
31cm
actual image size: 23cm x 32cm
Description
Signed photograph of Sir William Henry Bragg (1862-1942) who founded X-ray crystallography, the determination by x-ray diffraction methods of the molecular structure of crystals. He was the father of William Lawrence Bragg (1890-1971), also a physicist, and they worked together, jointly winning the Nobel prize for physics in 1915. Bragg became director of the Royal Institution in 1923 as did his son after him.
Image Details
Image Ref.
10300571
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