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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, chemist, mathematician, and active sportsman 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". The mineral Braggite is named after him and his son. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William Henry Bragg has received more than 420,880 page views. His biography is available in 90 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 86 in 2019). William Henry Bragg is the 136th most popular physicist (down from 96th in 2019), the 347th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 301st in 2019) and the 21st 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 136 out of 851. Before him are Frits Zernike, Ernst Abbe, Laura Bassi, Felix Bloch, Walther Bothe, and Hideki Yukawa. After him are Peter Grünberg, Augustin-Jean Fresnel, Rudolf Mössbauer, George Paget Thomson, Donald A. Glaser, and Auguste Piccard.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1862, William Henry Bragg ranks 14. Before him are Arthur Schnitzler, O. Henry, Aristide Briand, Hilma af Klint, Niko Pirosmani, and Victoria of Baden. After him are Pyotr Stolypin, Joseph Merrick, Helene Schjerfbeck, Cecilia Bowes-Lyon, Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne, Henri Pirenne, and J. Bruce Ismay. Among people deceased in 1942, William Henry Bragg ranks 13. Before him are Bronisław Malinowski, Anton Drexler, Jean Baptiste Perrin, Lucy Maud Montgomery, William G. Morgan, and Richard Willstätter. After him are Robert Bosch, Fritz Todt, Bruno Schulz, Walther von Reichenau, Franz Boas, and François Darlan.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, William Henry Bragg ranks 347 out of 8,785. Before him are Benjamin Britten (1913), John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough (1650), David Beckham (1975), Malcolm McDowell (1943), Chaim Herzog (1918), and Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828). After him are G. K. Chesterton (1874), Angela Lansbury (1925), Christopher Marlowe (1564), Alan Bates (1934), Prince Andrew, Duke of York (1960), and Thomas Paine (1737).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United Kingdom

Among physicists born in United Kingdom, William Henry Bragg ranks 21. Before him are Charles Thomson Rees Wilson (1869), Peter Higgs (1929), Owen Willans Richardson (1879), Edward Victor Appleton (1892), John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh (1842), and Roger Penrose (1931). After him are Henry Moseley (1887), David J. Thouless (1934), William Shockley (1910), John Kendrew (1917), Patrick Blackett (1897), and Brian Josephson (1940).

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