Light is a messenger : the life and science of William Lawrence Bragg / Graeme K. Hunter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hunter, Graeme K.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bragg, William Lawrence, Sir, 1890-1971.

Bragg, William Lawrence.

X-ray crystallography.

Physicists--Australia--Biography.

Physicists.

Physical Description:

xxi, 301 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.

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.

Contents:

Intro

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

9 The art of popular lecturing on scientific subjects: The Royal Institution, 1954-66

10 A very difficult affair indeed: Retirement, 1966-71

References

Index

A

B

C

D

E

F

G

H

I

J

K

L

M

N

O

P

Q

R

S

T

U

V

W

X

Y

Z.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9780191523823

0191523828

OCLC:

476258410