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William Henry Bragg
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William Henry Bragg

1862 – 1942 · aged 80

British scientist (1862–1942)

Born
2 Jul 1862 · Wigton
Died
12 Mar 1942 · London
Part ofUnited Kingdom43 CE – today

Life timeline

Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.

Showing 92 years
  1. 2 Jul 1862BornBorn in Wigton
  2. 1915AwardMatteucci Medal
  3. 1915AwardNobel Prize in Physics
  4. 1915AwardRoyal Society Bakerian Medal
  5. 1916AwardRumford Medal
  6. 1923AwardHonorary Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi
  7. 1930AwardCopley Medal
  8. 1930AwardFranklin Medal
  9. 1935 – 1940RolePresident of the Royal Society
  10. 1936AwardFaraday Medal
  11. 1939AwardJohn J. Carty Award for the Advancement of Science
  12. 12 Mar 1942DiedDied in London

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1862 – 1942).

  1. 1870 – 1871Franco-Prussian War
  2. 18961896 Summer Olympics
  3. 1898Spanish–American War
  4. 1904 – 1905Russo-Japanese War
  5. 1914 – 1918World War I
  6. 1915 – 1923Armenian genocide
  7. 1917Balfour Declaration
  8. 1917February Revolution
  9. 1917October Revolution
  10. 1917 – 1922Russian Civil War
  11. 1919 – 1920Paris Peace Conference
  12. 1920Treaty of Versailles
  13. 1933 – 1945The Holocaust
  14. 19341934 FIFA World Cup
  15. 19361936 Summer Olympics
  16. 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
  17. 19381938 FIFA World Cup
  18. 1938Munich Agreement
  19. 1939 – 1940Winter War
  20. 1939 – 1945World War II
  21. 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
  22. 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
  23. 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
  24. 1941Operation Barbarossa
  25. 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad

Biography

Sir William Henry Bragg (2 July 1862 – 12 March 1942) was a British 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," an important step in the development of X-ray crystallography.

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