William Lawrence Bragg

William Lawrence Bragg was a British-Australian mathematician, physicist, and crystallographer. Born in Adelaide in 1890, he worked as a university teacher at the University of Manchester, the University of Cambridge, and the Victoria University of Manchester. He was educated at the University of Adelaide, Trinity College, the University of Cambridge, and the Australian National University. His doctoral advisors were J. J. Thomson and his father, William Henry Bragg.

Bragg’s field of work included physics, X-ray crystallography, and X-ray spectroscopy. He authored works such as *The crystalline state* and *X Rays and Crystal Structure*. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Physics and received the Copley Medal, the Military Cross, and the Officer of the Order of the British Empire. He was a member of the Royal Society, the German Academy of Sciences at Berlin, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, and the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. He died in Ipswich in 1971.