Sir William Henry Bragg OM, KBE (2 July 1862 – 10 March 1942) was a British physicist and chemist who uniquely shared the Nobel Prize in Physics with his son, William Lawrence Bragg, in 1915.
Bragg was born at Westward near Wigton, Cumberland, the son of Robert John Bragg, a merchant navy officer and farmer, and his wife Mary Wood, a clergyman's daughter. At seven years of age his mother died and he was raised by an uncle, also William Bragg at M...
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Sir William Henry Bragg OM, KBE (2 July 1862 – 10 March 1942) was a British physicist and chemist who uniquely shared the Nobel Prize in Physics with his son, William Lawrence Bragg, in 1915.
Bragg was born at Westward near Wigton, Cumberland, the son of Robert John Bragg, a merchant navy officer and farmer, and his wife Mary Wood, a clergyman's daughter. At seven years of age his mother died and he was raised by an uncle, also William Bragg at Market Harborough, Leicestershire. He was educated at the Old Grammar School there, later at King William's College, Isle of Man and winning a scholarship then Trinity College, Cambridge. He graduated in 1884 as third wrangler in the mathematical tripos.
In 1885 Bragg was appointed "Elder Professor of Pure and Applied Mathematics, who shall also give instruction in Physics" at the University of Adelaide in Australia and started work there early in 1886. At that time he had limited knowledge of physics, most of which was in the form of applied...
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