Sir William Henry Bragg (July 2nd 1862 with Westward, in the Cumberland - March 10th 1942 with London) was a Physicien and British Chimiste . He made his studies with the King William' S College in the Île of Man and with the Trinity College with Cambridge. He taught with the Université of Adelaide in Australia (1886 - 1908), with the Université of Leeds (1909 - 15) and with the Université of London (1915 - 23). From 1923, he was professor Fullerien of chemistry to the Royal Institution and director of the Davy-Faraday research laboratory. In 1915, it divided with his/her son William Lawrence Bragg the Nobel Prize of physics for their study, using the Spectromètre with X-rays, of the diffraction of x-rays and its application to the determination of the crystalline structure. It became Fellow of the Royal Society in 1906 and was also president of this company of 1935 with 1940. He is prize winner of the Médaille Rumford in 1916 and of the Franklin Médaille in 1930.

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• Law of Bragg

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