William henry bragg biography

Sir William Henry BraggOM KBE PRS^[1] (2 July 1862 – 12 March 1942) was a Britishphysicist, chemist, mathematician and active sportsman.^[2]

Bragg shared a Nobel Prize with his son William Lawrence Bragg – the 1915 Nobel Prize in Physics.^[3]

Adelaide

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In 1885, at 23, Bragg was appointed Elder Professor of Mathematics and Experimental Physics at the University of Adelaide,^[4] and started work there early in 1886.

William henry bragg biography

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Bragg was an able and popular lecturer; he encouraged the formation of the student union, and the attendance, free of charge, of science teachers at his lectures.^[5][6]

Bragg was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1907.

Leeds

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Bragg returned to England at the end of 1908 and took the Cavendish Chair in Physics at the University of Leeds in 1909. He published an imporant early work on radioactivity, Studies in radioactivity