Bragg, Sir William

Bragg, Sir William Henry (1862-1942) and Bragg, Sir William Lawrence... 

German physicist Max von Laue (1879-1960) and British scientists Sir William Henry Bragg (1862-1942) and his son. Sir William Lawrence Bragg (1890-1971), discover how to use X-ray diffraction to analyze the structure of molecules. 

Figure 3.l5d shows the structure of sodium chloride as determined by the X-ray diffraction technique. The study of crystals using X-ray diffraction was pioneered by Sir William Bragg and his son Sir Lawrence Bragg in 1912. X-rays are a form of electromagnetic radiation. They have a much... 

In the words of Sir William Lawrence Bragg, The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways [italics added] of thinking about them. ... 

Bragg and X-Ray Reflection. In 1913 Sir William Bragg and his son—now Sir Lawrence Bragg-showed that X-ray diffraction patterns could equally well be explained on a basis of reflection from the planes of atoms in the crystal. They were... 

English physicist Sir William Henry Bragg examining liquid oxygen at a 1936 science exhibition. 

English physicist William Lawrence Bragg, co-recipient, with Sir William Henry Bragg, of the 1915 Nobel Prize in physics, for their services in the analysis of crystal structure by means of X-rays. ... 

The X-ray diffraction method is most easily applied to crystalline solids. The pioneering work in this field was done in 1912 and 1913, by the British physicist Sir William H. Bragg (1862-1942) and his son Sir Lawrence Bragg. Figure 3.5 shows a schematic diagram of the Bragg X-ray spectrometer. The same principle is used in most modern instruments, which are widely used to study crystals and other solid materials. The technique can be applied either to single crystals or to powders. From... 

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