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Lawrence Bragg

1890 - 1971

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Sir William Lawrence Bragg (31 March 1890 – 1 July 1971) was an Australian-born British physicist who shared the 1915 Nobel Prize in Physics with his father William Henry Bragg "for their services in the analysis of crystal structure by means of X-rays", an important step in the development of X-ray crystallography. As of 2024, he is the youngest ever Nobel laureate in physics, or in any science category, having received the award at the age of 25. Bragg was the director of the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, when James D. Watson and Francis Crick reported the discovery of the structure of DNA in February 1953. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Lawrence Bragg is the 33rd most popular physicist (up from 74th in 2019), the most popular biography from Australia and the most popular Australian Physicist.

Lawrence Bragg is most famous for his research with his father, William Bragg, that led to the discovery of X-rays.

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Among physicists, Lawrence Bragg ranks 33 out of 851. Before him are Robert Hooke, Maria Goeppert Mayer, Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, Owen Willans Richardson, Ibn al-Haytham, and Heinrich Hertz. After him are Christiaan Huygens, James Clerk Maxwell, Louis de Broglie, Hendrik Lorentz, Daniel Bernoulli, and Lise Meitner.

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Among people born in 1890, Lawrence Bragg ranks 5. Before him are Charles de Gaulle, Ho Chi Minh, Agatha Christie, and Dwight D. Eisenhower. After him are Vyacheslav Molotov, Friedrich Paulus, Boris Pasternak, H. P. Lovecraft, Egon Schiele, Alfred Jodl, and Karel Čapek. Among people deceased in 1971, Lawrence Bragg ranks 4. Before him are Igor Stravinsky, Nikita Khrushchev, and Coco Chanel. After him are Louis Armstrong, Jim Morrison, Paul Karrer, John Boyd Orr, György Lukács, Wendell Meredith Stanley, Audie Murphy, and Giorgos Seferis.

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In Australia

Among people born in Australia, Lawrence Bragg ranks 1 out of 1,143. After him are Macfarlane Burnet (1899), Gough Whitlam (1916), Don Bradman (1908), Peter C. Doherty (1940), George Miller (1945), Geoffrey Rush (1951), Tamam Shud case (1903), Sia (1975), John Cornforth (1917), Elizabeth Blackburn (1948), and Cate Blanchett (1969).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Australia

Among physicists born in Australia, Lawrence Bragg ranks 1. After him are Alexander Prokhorov (1916), Mark Oliphant (1901), and Helen Quinn (1943).

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