William Henry Bragg
Sir William Henry Bragg (
1862-
1942) was an English physicist, educated at King William's College, Isle of Man, and Trinity College, Cambridge. He served on the faculties of the Univ. of Adelaide in Australia (1886-1908), the Univ. of Leeds (1909-15), and the Univ. of London (1915-23). From 1923 he was Fullerian professor of chemistry in the
Royal Institution and director of the Davy-Faraday research laboratory. He shared with his son
William Lawrence Bragg the 1915
Nobel Prize in Physics for their studies, using the X-ray spectrometer, of X-ray spectra, X-ray diffraction, and of crystal structure. He became a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1906 and served as president of the society from 1935 to 1940.
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