1862 - 1942
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 338,709 page views. His biography is available in 86 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 84 in 2019). William Henry Bragg is the 96th most popular physicist (down from 95th in 2019), the 301st most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 325th in 2019) and the 18th 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, William Henry Bragg ranks 96 out of 717. Before him are Paul Langevin, Arthur Compton, Charles Édouard Guillaume, Dennis Gabor, James Franck, and Manne Siegbahn. After him are Edward Teller, Walther Bothe, C. V. Raman, Joseph Henry, Hippolyte Fizeau, and Alfred Kastler.
1872 - 1946
HPI: 68.53
Rank: 90
1892 - 1962
HPI: 68.51
Rank: 91
1861 - 1938
HPI: 68.46
Rank: 92
1900 - 1979
HPI: 68.39
Rank: 93
1882 - 1964
HPI: 68.39
Rank: 94
1886 - 1978
HPI: 68.34
Rank: 95
1862 - 1942
HPI: 68.25
Rank: 96
1908 - 2003
HPI: 68.16
Rank: 97
1891 - 1957
HPI: 67.98
Rank: 98
1888 - 1970
HPI: 67.89
Rank: 99
1797 - 1878
HPI: 67.88
Rank: 100
1819 - 1896
HPI: 67.80
Rank: 101
1902 - 1984
HPI: 67.78
Rank: 102
Among people born in 1862, William Henry Bragg ranks 9. Before him are Maurice Maeterlinck, David Hilbert, Philipp Lenard, Arthur Schnitzler, Gerhart Hauptmann, and O. Henry. After him are Allvar Gullstrand, Aristide Briand, Victoria of Baden, Pyotr Stolypin, Niko Pirosmani, and Joseph Merrick. Among people deceased in 1942, William Henry Bragg ranks 11. Before him are Edith Stein, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anton Drexler, José Raúl Capablanca, Robert Musil, and Jean Baptiste Perrin. After him are Robert Bosch, William G. Morgan, Walther von Reichenau, Fritz Todt, Franz Boas, and Richard Willstätter.
1862 - 1949
HPI: 77.38
Rank: 3
1862 - 1943
HPI: 75.21
Rank: 4
1862 - 1947
HPI: 71.57
Rank: 5
1862 - 1931
HPI: 69.25
Rank: 6
1862 - 1946
HPI: 69.09
Rank: 7
1862 - 1910
HPI: 68.89
Rank: 8
1862 - 1942
HPI: 68.25
Rank: 9
1862 - 1930
HPI: 68.17
Rank: 10
1862 - 1932
HPI: 67.79
Rank: 11
1862 - 1930
HPI: 66.77
Rank: 12
1862 - 1911
HPI: 65.92
Rank: 13
1862 - 1918
HPI: 65.51
Rank: 14
1862 - 1890
HPI: 65.51
Rank: 15
1891 - 1942
HPI: 71.33
Rank: 5
1874 - 1942
HPI: 71.02
Rank: 6
1884 - 1942
HPI: 70.84
Rank: 7
1888 - 1942
HPI: 70.74
Rank: 8
1880 - 1942
HPI: 70.15
Rank: 9
1870 - 1942
HPI: 69.37
Rank: 10
1862 - 1942
HPI: 68.25
Rank: 11
1861 - 1942
HPI: 68.04
Rank: 12
1870 - 1942
HPI: 67.73
Rank: 13
1884 - 1942
HPI: 66.71
Rank: 14
1891 - 1942
HPI: 66.41
Rank: 15
1858 - 1942
HPI: 66.39
Rank: 16
1872 - 1942
HPI: 65.71
Rank: 17
Among people born in United Kingdom, William Henry Bragg ranks 301 out of 7,765. Before him are Harold Macmillan (1894), Alfred North Whitehead (1861), David Suchet (1946), Thomas Becket (1119), Richard Cromwell (1626), and Frederick Sanger (1918). After him are Tim Berners-Lee (1955), Richard Trevithick (1771), Princess Alice of Battenberg (1885), Peter Ustinov (1921), Emmeline Pankhurst (1858), and Halford Mackinder (1861).
1894 - 1986
HPI: 68.34
Rank: 295
1861 - 1947
HPI: 68.32
Rank: 296
1946 - Present
HPI: 68.32
Rank: 297
1119 - 1170
HPI: 68.30
Rank: 298
1626 - 1712
HPI: 68.29
Rank: 299
1918 - 2013
HPI: 68.29
Rank: 300
1862 - 1942
HPI: 68.25
Rank: 301
1955 - Present
HPI: 68.25
Rank: 302
1771 - 1833
HPI: 68.25
Rank: 303
1885 - 1969
HPI: 68.22
Rank: 304
1921 - 2004
HPI: 68.10
Rank: 305
1858 - 1928
HPI: 68.06
Rank: 306
1861 - 1947
HPI: 68.04
Rank: 307
Among physicists born in United Kingdom, William Henry Bragg ranks 18. Before him are Charles Thomson Rees Wilson (1869), Roger Penrose (1931), William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin (1824), John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh (1842), Owen Willans Richardson (1879), and Peter Higgs (1929). After him are Henry Moseley (1887), Edward Victor Appleton (1892), George Paget Thomson (1892), C. F. Powell (1903), Charles Glover Barkla (1877), and William Shockley (1910).
1869 - 1959
HPI: 70.33
Rank: 12
1931 - Present
HPI: 69.71
Rank: 13
1824 - 1907
HPI: 69.64
Rank: 14
1842 - 1919
HPI: 69.62
Rank: 15
1879 - 1959
HPI: 69.23
Rank: 16
1929 - Present
HPI: 68.66
Rank: 17
1862 - 1942
HPI: 68.25
Rank: 18
1887 - 1915
HPI: 67.42
Rank: 19
1892 - 1965
HPI: 67.00
Rank: 20
1892 - 1975
HPI: 66.93
Rank: 21
1903 - 1969
HPI: 66.61
Rank: 22
1877 - 1944
HPI: 66.03
Rank: 23
1910 - 1989
HPI: 65.24
Rank: 24