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Garrison-Morton-Norman History of Medicine

BRAGG, Sir William Lawrence (1890 – 1971)

1890 – 1971

3 entries in the GMN corpus.

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1913 CE

#6919

The diffraction of short electromagnetic waves by a crystal.

BRAGG, Sir William Lawrence (1890 – 1971)

At the age of 22, Bragg discovered that the regular pattern of dots produced on a photographic plate by an X-ray beam passing through a crystal could be regarded as a reflection of electromagnetic radiation from plane…

1913 CE

#6920

The reflection of x-rays by crystals.

BRAGG, Sir William Lawrence (1890 – 1971)
BRAGG, Sir William Henry (1862 – 1942)
BRAGG, Sir William Henry (1862 – 1942)

Discovery of X-ray crystallography. The father and son team of physicists, William Henry Bragg and William Lawrence Bragg, constructed the first X-ray spectrometer using crystals as gratings, using a known wavelength …

1915 CE

#9646

X rays and crystal structure.

BRAGG, Sir William Lawrence (1890 – 1971)
BRAGG, Sir William Henry (1862 – 1942)
BRAGG, Sir William Henry (1862 – 1942)

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