Lawrence Bragg
Born on 31st of March 1890
Died on 1st of July 1971
Born 1890 - Adelaide, Australia. Died 1971 - Physicist and Nobel Prize winner.
Educated at Adelaide University and Trinity College, Cambridge. Discovered the Bragg Law in 1912. With his father studied crystals by X-ray diffraction. Shared Nobel Prize for physics. Became head of Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge and helped create molecular biology and revolutionise biological science. Knighted in 1941.
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