William Lawrence Bragg CH KBE MC (1890 - 1971)

Born 31 Mar 1890 in Adelaide, South Australia (Australia)

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Husband of Alice Grace Jenny (Hopkinson) Bragg — married about Dec 1921 in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England

Died 1 Jul 1971 at age 81 in Ipswich, Suffolk, England

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Lawrence Bragg CH KBE MC is Notable.

Lawrence Bragg CH KBE MC was awarded the Nobel Prize.

Sir William Henry Bragg ^[1] (1862-1942), and Sir William Lawrence Bragg (1890-1971), physicists, were father and son. William Henry was born on 2 July 1862 at Westward near Wigton, Cumberland, England, son of Robert John Bragg, merchant navy officer and farmer, and his wife Mary, née Wood. His mother died when he was 7 and, almost isolated from other children, he was raised by his uncle William Bragg at Market Harborough, Leicestershire. He won scholarships to the local grammar school and to King William's College, Isle of Man, where he became head of the school and won an exhibition to Trinity College, Cambridge. . . .

In 1886 Bragg arrived in Adelaide to take up the university post of '(Sir Thomas) Elder Professor of Pure and Applied Mathematics, who shall also give instruction in Physics'. . . .

Meeting with a friendly reception, particulary from the family of (Sir) Charles Todd, Bragg enjoyed a wide popularity, and his personality blossomed. He played tennis and golf and helped to introduce lacrosse to South Australia. On 1 June 1889 he married Todd's daughter Gwendoline, a skilled water-colourist; Bragg took up painting and they exhibited together. They had two sons, one of whom was later killed at Gallipoli, and a daughter. . . . more . . adb.anu.edu

. . . . . William Lawrence Bragg was born in Adelaide on 31 March 1890 and educated at the Collegiate School of St Peter and the University of Adelaide (B.A., 1908). He graduated also at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he became a fellow and lecturer in natural science. Following the period of collaboration with his father and the war years, he was in 1919 appointed Langworthy professor of physics at Victoria University, Manchester, where he fostered a school of X-ray crystallography devoted mainly to the study of inorganic structures, notably silicates, metals and alloys. In 1915, he shared the Nobel Prize with his father for their analysis of crystal structure by means of X-rays. On 10 December 1921 at Cambridge he married Alice Grace Jenny Hopkinson who pursued a successful career in municipal affairs. . . .

. . . . In 1937 Bragg became director of the National Physical Laboratory, Teddington, but a year later succeeded Rutherford as Cavendish professor of experimental physics at Cambridge. Here he joined in the attack upon the structures of the proteins, haemoglobin and myoglobin. In 1954 he was appointed to the positions earlier held by his father at the Royal Institution. At his retirement in 1966 he had seen the subject of X-ray crystallography, pioneered by his father and himself, grow from the elucidation of the structures of the simplest crystals to that of enormously complicated molecules containing thousands of atoms. He visited Australia in 1960 and spoke at the University of Adelaide of the latest triumphs of crystallography. . . . more . . adb.anu.edu

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William Lawrence Bragg. ^{[2] [3] [4] [5]}
Given Name: William Lawrence. Surname: Bragg.
Suffix: Sir CH, KBE, OBE, MC, MiD. Born 31 MAR 1890. Adelaide, South Australia, Australia. ^{[2] [3] [4] [5]}

Died 1 JUL 1971. Ipswich, Suffolk, England. ^{[3] [5]}

FSFTID MWXT-CLR.

Residence Marital Status: SingleRelation to Head of House: Son. 2 APR 1911. Leeds, Yorkshire-West Riding, England. ^[2]

Buried Cambridge, City of Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England. ^{[3] [5]}

Marriage Husband William Henry Bragg. Wife Gwendoline Todd. Child: William Lawrence Bragg. Child: Robert Charles Bragg. Child: Gwendolen Mary Bragg. Marriage 1 JUN 1889. Adelaide, South Australia. ^[6]

1. ↑ S. G. Tomlin, Bragg, Sir William Henry (1862–1942), Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University,
   published first in hardcopy 1979, accessed online 10 May 2019.
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3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3} Source: #S249 Page
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1} Source: #S254 Page
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3} Source: #S154 Page
6. ↑ Source: #S262 Page

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