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William Henry Bragg

1862 - 1942

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Sir William Henry Bragg (2 July 1862 – 12 March 1942) was an English physicist and X-ray crystallographer who uniquely shared a Nobel Prize with his son Lawrence Bragg – the 1915 Nobel Prize in Physics: "for their services in the analysis of crystal structure by means of X-rays". Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. William Henry Bragg is the 99th most popular physicist (up from 136th in 2019), the 271st most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 347th in 2019) and the 22nd most popular British Physicist.

William Henry Bragg is most famous for his work with his son, William Lawrence Bragg, in developing the X-ray crystallography technique.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, William Henry Bragg ranks 99 out of 851. Before him are Carl David Anderson, Barry Barish, Ben Roy Mottelson, J. Hans D. Jensen, Percy Williams Bridgman, and Jean Baptiste Perrin. After him are Eugene Wigner, Donald A. Glaser, Aage Bohr, Thomas Young, Peter Debye, and Mikhail Lomonosov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1862, William Henry Bragg ranks 8. Before him are Claude Debussy, Maurice Maeterlinck, David Hilbert, Philipp Lenard, Gerhart Hauptmann, and Allvar Gullstrand. After him are Hilma af Klint, O. Henry, Aristide Briand, Arthur Schnitzler, Joseph Merrick, and Niko Pirosmani. Among people deceased in 1942, William Henry Bragg ranks 8. Before him are Reinhard Heydrich, Janusz Korczak, Richard Willstätter, Edith Stein, José Raúl Capablanca, and Jean Baptiste Perrin. After him are Bronisław Malinowski, Robert Musil, Walther von Reichenau, Anton Drexler, Lucy Maud Montgomery, and Fritz Todt.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, William Henry Bragg ranks 271 out of 8,785. Before him are Elizabeth of York (1466), Mary Mallon (1869), Princess Alice of the United Kingdom (1843), Helen Mirren (1945), Æthelberht, King of Wessex (836), and Mary Anne MacLeod Trump (1912). After him are Jane Birkin (1946), William Adams (1564), Robert the Bruce (1274), Thomas Boleyn, 1st Earl of Wiltshire (1477), Rodney Robert Porter (1917), and Owain Glyndŵr (1359).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United Kingdom

Among physicists born in United Kingdom, William Henry Bragg ranks 22. Before him are Brian Josephson (1940), Patrick Blackett (1897), Charles Glover Barkla (1877), Paul Dirac (1902), James Chadwick (1891), and C. F. Powell (1903). After him are Thomas Young (1773), Peter Higgs (1929), Roger Penrose (1931), Henry Moseley (1887), John Kendrew (1917), and James Jeans (1877).

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