Lawrence Bragg

<p>Sir William Lawrence Bragg (31 March 1890 – 1 July 1971) was an Australian-born British <a href="/facts/Physicist/cQcgvSIm">physicist</a> who shared the 1915 <a href="/facts/Nobel_Prize_in_Physics/o6w1nCbr">Nobel Prize in Physics</a> with his father <a href="/facts/William_Henry_Bragg/R2b3rxNx">William Henry Bragg</a>  "for their services in the <a href="/facts/Analysis/heFlRrYd">analysis</a> of <a href="/facts/Crystal_structure/bJ4bCeHd">crystal structure</a> by means of <a href="/facts/X-ray/wseP79cN">X-rays</a>", an important step in the development of <a href="/facts/X-ray_crystallography/WtI0F5DN">X-ray crystallography</a>.
</p><p>As of 2024, he is the youngest ever <a href="/facts/List_of_Nobel_laureates/3vGWzdwa">Nobel laureate</a> in physics, or in any science category, having received the award at the age of 25. Bragg was the director of the <a href="/facts/Cavendish_Laboratory/nh4qJsWs">Cavendish Laboratory</a>, Cambridge, when the discovery of the structure of DNA was reported by <a href="/facts/James_D._Watson/TnXJ7GCp">James D. Watson</a> and <a href="/facts/Francis_Crick/AG05HNKI">Francis Crick</a> in February 1953.
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Lawrence Bragg