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William Lawrence Bragg
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William Lawrence Bragg

1890 – 1971 · aged 81

Australian-born British physicist and X-ray crystallographer

Born
31 Mar 1890 · Adelaide
Died
1 Jul 1971 · Ipswich
Part ofAustralia1808 – today

Life timeline

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

Showing 93 years
  1. 31 Mar 1890BornBorn in Adelaide
  2. 1915AwardMatteucci Medal
  3. 1915AwardNobel Prize in Physics
  4. 1919 – 1937RoleLangworthy Professor
  5. 1927 – 1929RolePresident
  6. 1931AwardHughes Medal
  7. 1934AwardRoyal Society Bakerian Medal
  8. 1942AwardDalton Medal
  9. 1946AwardDoctor honoris causa from the University of Paris
  10. 1946AwardRoyal Medal
  11. 1948AwardRoebling Medal
  12. 1952AwardGuthrie Lecture
  13. 1955AwardX-ray badge
  14. 1957AwardMaxwell Lecture
  15. 1960AwardHonorary doctor of the University of New Zealand
  16. 1 Jul 1971DiedDied in Ipswich

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1890 – 1971).

  1. 18961896 Summer Olympics
  2. 1898Spanish–American War
  3. 1904 – 1905Russo-Japanese War
  4. 1914 – 1918World War I
  5. 1915 – 1923Armenian genocide
  6. 1917Balfour Declaration
  7. 1917February Revolution
  8. 1917October Revolution
  9. 1917 – 1922Russian Civil War
  10. 1919 – 1920Paris Peace Conference
  11. 1920Treaty of Versailles
  12. 1933 – 1945The Holocaust
  13. 19341934 FIFA World Cup
  14. 19361936 Summer Olympics
  15. 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
  16. 19381938 FIFA World Cup
  17. 1938Munich Agreement
  18. 1939 – 1940Winter War
  19. 1939 – 1945World War II
  20. 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
  21. 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
  22. 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
  23. 1941Operation Barbarossa
  24. 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
  25. 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  26. 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
  27. 19501950 FIFA World Cup
  28. 1950 – 1953Korean War
  29. 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
  30. 19541954 FIFA World Cup
  31. 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
  32. 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
  33. 1956Suez Crisis
  34. 19581958 FIFA World Cup
  35. 1959Antarctic Treaty System
  36. 19621962 FIFA World Cup
  37. 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
  38. 19661966 FIFA World Cup
  39. 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
  40. 1968Prague Spring

Biography

Sir William Lawrence Bragg (31 March 1890 – 1 July 1971) was an Australian-born British X-ray crystallographer who uniquely shared a Nobel Prize with his father William Henry 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.

As of 2026, Bragg is the youngest ever Nobel laureate in physics, or in any science category, having received the award at the age of 25. Bragg was the director of the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, when James D. Watson and Francis Crick reported the discovery of the structure of DNA in February 1953.

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