William Henry Bragg (1862 to 1942) was an English physicist who, working with his son William Lawrence Bragg, built the X-ray spectrometer that turned von Laue's diffraction effect into a systematic method for locating atoms inside a crystal. Father and son shared the 1915 Nobel Prize in Physics for founding X-ray crystallography, the technique materials science still uses to solve crystal structures.
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Founded
With his son William Lawrence Bragg, whose own entity is not yet live on this atlas; the two shared the 1915 Nobel Prize for the founding work.
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Designed and built the first ionization X-ray spectrometer in 1912 to 13 with his son Lawrence, announced in their joint paper of April 1913; the two shared the 1915 Nobel Prize in Physics for the work.
Source X-ray Diffraction Spectrometer (Britannica)
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