Light is a Messenger : the Life and Science of William Lawrence Bragg.

"Light is a Messenger" is the first biography of Sir Lawrence Bragg, the youngest person ever to win a Nobel Prize. Bragg won the Nobel Prize for discovering how to use X-rays to determine the atomic structures of crystals and molecules. He was director of the research unit in which James...

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Main Author: Hunter, Graeme K.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, UK, 2004
Series:OUP E-Books.
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 A shy and reserved person: Adelaide, 1886-1908; 2 Concatenation of fortunate circumstances: Cambridge, 1909-14; 3 Our show is going famously: World War One; 4 A system of simple and elegant architecture: Manchester, 1919-30; 5 Plus-plus chemistry: Manchester, 1931-7; 6 Supreme position in British physics: The National Physical Laboratory and Cambridge, 1937-9; 7 He will have to be Sir Lawrence: World War Two; 8 A message in code which we cannot yet decipher: Cambridge, 1945-53.