| Description |
1 online resource (xx, 427 pages) : illustrations, portraits |
| Contents |
Cover -- Foreword -- Contents -- 1. Meet my Mother and Father (by Patience Thomson) -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Personalities -- 1.3 Meet my Mother -- 1.4 Meet my Father -- 1.5 Family Homes -- 2. William Lawrence Bragg (In his own Words) -- 2.1 Growing Up in Australia -- 2.2 The Journey to England -- 2.3 The Cavendish Laboratory -- 2.4 War! -- 2.5 Manchester Days -- 2.6 A Brief Interlude -- 2.7 Return to Cambridge -- 2.8 Another War Ended -- 3. Alice Grace Jenny Bragg: 'The Half Was Not Told' -- 3.1 My Hopkinson Grandparents |
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3.2 Aunt Mary and Others3.3 My Mother's Family -- 3.4 My Mother's Diary -- 3.5 Childhood at Parsonage Nook -- 3.6 Boarding School -- 3.7 Family Holidays -- 3.8 A Year at Home -- 3.9 Student at Cambridge -- 3.10 Engagement and Marriage -- 3.11 Life in Manchester -- 3.12 The 'Manchester School' -- 3.13 Travels Abroad -- 3.14 'Farewell to Manchester' -- 3.15 Wartime in Cambridge -- 3.16 His Worship Mr Mayor -- 3.17 The Royal Institution: A Difficult Decision -- Suggestions for Further Reading -- Name Index |
| Summary |
The main body of this book contains the hitherto unpublished autobiographies of both William Lawrence Bragg, an innovative scientist who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1915, and his wife, Alice, a Mayor of Cambridge and National Chairman of Marriage Guidance. Their autobiographies give unusual insights into the lives and times of two distinguished people and the real personalities behind their public appearance |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Bragg, William Lawrence, Sir, 1890-1971.
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Bragg, Alice Grace Jenny, 1899-1989.
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| SUBJECT |
Bragg, William Lawrence, Sir, 1890-1971 fast |
| Subject |
Physicists -- Great Britain -- Biography
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Physics -- History
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Crystallography -- History
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Science & Technology.
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SCIENCE -- Energy.
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SCIENCE -- Mechanics -- General.
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SCIENCE -- Physics -- General.
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Crystallography
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Physicists
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Physics
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Great Britain
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| Genre/Form |
autobiographies (literary works)
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Autobiographies
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Biographies
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History
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Autobiographies.
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Biographies.
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Autobiographies.
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Biographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Glazer, A. M. (Anthony Michael), editor.
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Thomson, Patience, editor.
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| ISBN |
9780191061790 |
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0191061794 |
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0198744307 |
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9780198744306 |
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9780191805721 |
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0191805726 |
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0191061808 |
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9780191061806 |
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