Quotes by William Lawrence Bragg

About William Lawrence Bragg:

Sir William Lawrence Bragg is basic for the determination of crystal structure. He was joint winner (with his father, William Henry Bragg) of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1915: "For their services in the analysis of crystal structure by means of X-ray" an important step in the development of X-ray crystallography.
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I feel very strongly indeed that a Cambridge education for our scientists should include some contact with the humanistic side. The gift of expression is important to them as scientists; the best research is wasted when it is extremely difficult to d...

William Lawrence Bragg

[Presently, science undergraduates] do not learn to write clearly and briefly, marshalling their points in due and aesthetically satisfying order, and eliminating inessentials. They are inept at those turns of phrase or happy analogy which throw a fl...

William Lawrence Bragg

The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them

William Lawrence Bragg

Author Bio

  • NameWilliam Lawrence Bragg
  • DescriptionAustralian-born British physicist and X-ray crystallographer
  • BornMarch 31, 1890
  • DiedJuly 1, 1971
  • CountryUnited Kingdom; Australia
  • ProfessionMathematician; Physicist
  • AwardsFellow Of The Royal Society; Military Cross; Officer Of The Order Of The British Empire; Copley Medal; Roebling Medal; Royal Medal; Nobel Prize In Physics