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

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"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: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, UK, 2004.
Series:OUP E-Books.
Subjects:
Bragg, William Lawrence, > Sir, > 1890-1971.
Bragg, William Lawrence, > Sir, > 1890-1971
Physicists > Australia > Biography.
X-ray crystallography.
Crystallography, X-Ray
Radiocristallographie.
SCIENCE > Physics > General.
SCIENCE > Mechanics > General.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Science & Technology.
SCIENCE > Energy.
Physicists
X-ray crystallography
Australia
Kristallografie.
Röntgendiffractie.
Electronic books.
Biography
Biographies
Biographies.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:"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 Watson and Francis Crick discovered the double helix structure of DNA. - ;"Light is a Messenger" is the first biography of William Lawrence Bragg, who was only 25 when he won the 1915 Nobel Prize in Physics - the youngest person ever to win a Nobel Prize. It describes how Bragg discovered.
Physical Description:1 online resource (335 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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