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1 online resource (335 pages) |
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OUP E-Books
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| 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 |
| 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. - ;"Light is a Messenger" is the first biography of William Lawrence Bragg, who was only 25 when he won the 1915 Nobel Prize in Physics - the youngest person ever to win a Nobel Prize. It describes how Bragg discovered |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Bragg, William Lawrence, Sir, 1890-1971.
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| SUBJECT |
Bragg, William Lawrence, Sir, 1890-1971 fast |
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Physicists -- Australia -- Biography
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X-ray crystallography.
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Crystallography, X-Ray
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SCIENCE -- Physics -- General.
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SCIENCE -- Mechanics -- General.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Science & Technology.
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SCIENCE -- Energy.
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Physicists
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X-ray crystallography
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Kristallografie.
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Röntgendiffractie.
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Australia
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780191523823 |
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0191523828 |
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9786610847051 |
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6610847053 |
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9780198529217 |
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019852921X |
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