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  title info:
    title: Light is a Messenger
    sub title: the Life and Science of William Lawrence Bragg
  name:
    name part: Hunter, Graeme K.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  genre: Biography
  genre: Biographies
  genre: Biographies.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    place:
      place term: Oxford
    publisher: Oxford University Press, UK
    date issued: 2004
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (335 pages)
  abstract: "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.
  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.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
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  subject:
    name:
      name part: Sir
      name part: Bragg, William Lawrence
      name part: 1890-1971
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Sir
      name part: Bragg, William Lawrence
      name part: 1890-1971
  subject:
    topic: Physicists
    geographic: Australia
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: X-ray crystallography
  subject:
    topic: Crystallography, X-Ray
  subject:
    topic: Radiocristallographie
  subject:
    topic: SCIENCE
    topic: Physics
    topic: General
  subject:
    topic: SCIENCE
    topic: Mechanics
    topic: General
  subject:
    topic: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
    topic: Science & Technology
  subject:
    topic: SCIENCE
    topic: Energy
  subject:
    topic: Physicists
  subject:
    topic: X-ray crystallography
  subject:
    geographic: Australia
  subject:
    topic: Kristallografie
  subject:
    topic: Röntgendiffractie
  classification: QC16.B658
  classification: QC16.B658H86 2004
  classification: 530.092B 530.092 530/.092 B
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  record info:
    record content source: EBLCP
    record creation date: 091207
    record change date: 20260318175033.5
    record identifier: in00005704486
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng