Who was Sir William Lawrence Bragg?
Q: Who was Sir William Lawrence Bragg?
A: Sir William Lawrence Bragg was an Australian-born British physicist and X-ray crystallographer.
Q: What did he discover in 1912?
A: In 1912, Lawrence Bragg discovered the Bragg law of X-ray diffraction, which is the basis of X-ray crystallography.
Q: When did he receive the Nobel Prize for Physics?
A: He was joint winner (with his father, Sir William Bragg) of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1915.
Q: How old was he when he won the Nobel Prize?
A: At 25 years old, Lawrence Bragg is still to this day the youngest ever Nobel Laureate.
Q: What other awards did he receive during his lifetime?
A: During his lifetime, Lawrence Bragg received a Military Cross in World War I, was elected an FRS in 1921, knighted by George VI in 1941 and received both the Copley Medal and Royal Medal from The Royal Society.
Q: What important discovery occurred at Cavendish Laboratory while he was director?
A: While Lawrence Bragg served as director of Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge University, James D. Watson and Francis Crick made their famous discovery of DNA's structure there in February 1953.
