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Lawrence Bragg

1890 - 1971

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Sir William Lawrence Bragg (31 March 1890 – 1 July 1971), known as Lawrence Bragg, was an Australian-born British physicist and X-ray crystallographer, discoverer (1912) of Bragg's law of X-ray diffraction, which is basic for the determination of crystal structure. He was joint recipient (with his father, William Henry Bragg) of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1915, "For their services in the analysis of crystal structure by means of X-rays"; an important step in the development of X-ray crystallography. Bragg was knighted in 1941. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lawrence Bragg has received more than 348,642 page views. His biography is available in 82 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 79 in 2019). Lawrence Bragg is the 74th most popular physicist (up from 76th in 2019), the most popular biography from Australia (up from 2nd in 2019) 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

Among physicists, Lawrence Bragg ranks 74 out of 851. Before him are Otto von Guericke, Lev Landau, Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis, Carl David Anderson, Georges Lemaître, and James Chadwick. After him are Ernest Lawrence, Louis de Broglie, Mikhail Lomonosov, Manne Siegbahn, C. F. Powell, and Charles Glover Barkla.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1890, Lawrence Bragg ranks 15. Before him are Egon Schiele, Karel Čapek, Alfred Jodl, Fritz Lang, Kurt Lewin, and George II of Greece. After him are Colonel Sanders, Stan Laurel, Man Ray, Carlos Gardel, Walther Funk, and Robert Ley. Among people deceased in 1971, Lawrence Bragg ranks 9. Before him are Igor Stravinsky, Louis Armstrong, Jim Morrison, Paul Karrer, György Lukács, and Audie Murphy. After him are Fernandel, Hermann Hoth, Arne Tiselius, Theodor Svedberg, Mátyás Rákosi, and Lin Biao.

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In Australia

Among people born in Australia, Lawrence Bragg ranks 1 out of 1,143. After him are Gough Whitlam (1916), Geoffrey Rush (1951), Rod Laver (1938), Sia (1975), Rupert Murdoch (1931), George Lazenby (1939), Truganini (1812), Cate Blanchett (1969), Elton Mayo (1880), Chris Hemsworth (1983), and Alexander Prokhorov (1916).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Australia

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

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