Nobel Prize in Physics 1915

Sir William Henry Bragg

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William Lawrence Bragg

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The Nobel Prize in Physics 1915 was awarded jointly to Sir William Henry Bragg and William Lawrence Bragg "for their services in the analysis of crystal structure by means of X-rays"

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