Sir William Henry Bragg (1862-1942)

Awarded the Prize “for his services in the analysis of crystal structure by means of X-rays.”

British physicist. W. H. Bragg was born in Westward, Engl on July 2, 1862. He was educated at Market Harborough Grammar School afterwards at King William’s College, then he went to Trinity College, Cambridge as a scholar studied physics in the Cavendish Laboratory. He graduated in 1884 one year later took the chair of mathematics physics at the University of Adelaide, Australia in 1886. He returned to Engl as professor of physics at Leeds University in 1909 moved to University College, London in 1915, later he became Fullerian Professor of Chemistry in the Royal Institution. He was elected President of the Royal Society in 1935. W. H. Bragg died in London on March 12, 1942.