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 303,970 page views. His biography is available in 84 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 81 in 2019). William Henry Bragg is the 95th most popular physicist (down from 88th in 2019), the 325th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 233rd in 2019) and the 16th 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 95 out of 721. Before him are Aage Bohr, Carl David Anderson, Peter Debye, Gabriel Lippmann, Ernst Abbe, and Ernst Ruska. After him are Barry Barish, Johann Jakob Balmer, Charles Glover Barkla, Anders Jonas Ångström, Hippolyte Fizeau, and Pavel Cherenkov.
1922 - 2009
HPI: 75.53
Rank: 89
1905 - 1991
HPI: 75.50
Rank: 90
1884 - 1966
HPI: 75.46
Rank: 91
1845 - 1921
HPI: 75.37
Rank: 92
1840 - 1905
HPI: 75.23
Rank: 93
1906 - 1988
HPI: 75.21
Rank: 94
1862 - 1942
HPI: 75.19
Rank: 95
1936 - Present
HPI: 75.18
Rank: 96
1825 - 1898
HPI: 75.17
Rank: 97
1877 - 1944
HPI: 75.13
Rank: 98
1814 - 1874
HPI: 75.11
Rank: 99
1819 - 1896
HPI: 75.05
Rank: 100
1904 - 1990
HPI: 75.02
Rank: 101
Among people born in 1862, William Henry Bragg ranks 11. Before him are Philipp Lenard, O. Henry, Gerhart Hauptmann, Arthur Schnitzler, Aristide Briand, and Joseph Merrick. After him are Allvar Gullstrand, Hilma af Klint, J. Bruce Ismay, Pyotr Stolypin, Victoria of Baden, and Niko Pirosmani. Among people deceased in 1942, William Henry Bragg ranks 14. Before him are José Raúl Capablanca, William G. Morgan, Anton Drexler, Jean Baptiste Perrin, Robert Bosch, and Franz Boas. After him are Walther von Reichenau, Fritz Todt, Richard Willstätter, Sabina Spielrein, Hans-Joachim Marseille, and François Darlan.
1862 - 1947
HPI: 79.12
Rank: 5
1862 - 1910
HPI: 77.19
Rank: 6
1862 - 1946
HPI: 76.88
Rank: 7
1862 - 1931
HPI: 76.43
Rank: 8
1862 - 1932
HPI: 75.83
Rank: 9
1862 - 1890
HPI: 75.57
Rank: 10
1862 - 1942
HPI: 75.19
Rank: 11
1862 - 1930
HPI: 74.57
Rank: 12
1862 - 1944
HPI: 74.24
Rank: 13
1862 - 1937
HPI: 73.87
Rank: 14
1862 - 1911
HPI: 73.65
Rank: 15
1862 - 1930
HPI: 73.40
Rank: 16
1862 - 1918
HPI: 72.91
Rank: 17
1888 - 1942
HPI: 76.72
Rank: 8
1870 - 1942
HPI: 76.56
Rank: 9
1884 - 1942
HPI: 76.53
Rank: 10
1870 - 1942
HPI: 76.25
Rank: 11
1861 - 1942
HPI: 75.82
Rank: 12
1858 - 1942
HPI: 75.74
Rank: 13
1862 - 1942
HPI: 75.19
Rank: 14
1884 - 1942
HPI: 75.11
Rank: 15
1891 - 1942
HPI: 74.25
Rank: 16
1872 - 1942
HPI: 74.11
Rank: 17
1885 - 1942
HPI: 73.61
Rank: 18
1919 - 1942
HPI: 73.12
Rank: 19
1881 - 1942
HPI: 73.01
Rank: 20
Among people born in United Kingdom, William Henry Bragg ranks 325 out of 6,924. Before him are Bernie Ecclestone (1930), Frederick Soddy (1877), Thomas Gainsborough (1727), William Petty (1623), Percy Fawcett (1867), and Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828). After him are Mary Read (1695), Alexander Pope (1688), John Ruskin (1819), Frederick Sanger (1918), Charles Glover Barkla (1877), and Ken Follett (1949).
1930 - Present
HPI: 75.23
Rank: 319
1877 - 1956
HPI: 75.22
Rank: 320
1727 - 1788
HPI: 75.22
Rank: 321
1623 - 1687
HPI: 75.21
Rank: 322
1867 - 1925
HPI: 75.20
Rank: 323
1828 - 1882
HPI: 75.19
Rank: 324
1862 - 1942
HPI: 75.19
Rank: 325
1695 - 1721
HPI: 75.16
Rank: 326
1688 - 1744
HPI: 75.16
Rank: 327
1819 - 1900
HPI: 75.14
Rank: 328
1918 - 2013
HPI: 75.13
Rank: 329
1877 - 1944
HPI: 75.13
Rank: 330
1949 - Present
HPI: 75.02
Rank: 331
Among physicists born in United Kingdom, William Henry Bragg ranks 16. Before him are James Chadwick (1891), William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin (1824), Charles Thomson Rees Wilson (1869), John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh (1842), Peter Higgs (1929), and Owen Willans Richardson (1879). After him are Charles Glover Barkla (1877), C. F. Powell (1903), Henry Moseley (1887), Thomas Young (1773), George Paget Thomson (1892), and Edward Victor Appleton (1892).
1891 - 1974
HPI: 78.31
Rank: 10
1824 - 1907
HPI: 77.83
Rank: 11
1869 - 1959
HPI: 77.24
Rank: 12
1842 - 1919
HPI: 76.60
Rank: 13
1929 - Present
HPI: 76.38
Rank: 14
1879 - 1959
HPI: 76.11
Rank: 15
1862 - 1942
HPI: 75.19
Rank: 16
1877 - 1944
HPI: 75.13
Rank: 17
1903 - 1969
HPI: 74.93
Rank: 18
1887 - 1915
HPI: 74.41
Rank: 19
1773 - 1829
HPI: 74.29
Rank: 20
1892 - 1975
HPI: 74.04
Rank: 21
1892 - 1965
HPI: 73.92
Rank: 22