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WHO WAS SIR WILLIAM LAWRENCE BRAGG? 

Bragg, and his father with whom he worked on the project, won the Nobel prize in Physics in 1915

Bragg, and his father with whom he worked on the project, won the Nobel prize in Physics in 1915

He was Australian-born British physicist and X-ray crystallographer who holds the accolade of being the youngest person to ever win a Nobel Prize. 

In 1912 he published his law of X-ray diffraction, which is basic for the determination of crystal structure.

The method would lay the foundations for the work of Rosalind Franklin 40 years later in discovering the structure of DNA. 

Bragg, and his father with whom he worked on the project, won the Nobel prize in Physics. 

He was then part of the Royal Cavalry during World War One before being involved in projects to develop technology to further the war effort. 

He helped develop a method to detect the position of enemy artillery using a technique called 'sound ranging'. 

 For his work during the war he was awarded the Military Cross.

In later life he became director of the Cavendish Laboratory,where the pioneering work on DNA was reported by James Watson and Francis Crick in February 1953.

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