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Sir William Henry Bragg ( July 2, 1862 - March 10, 1942) was an English physicist, educated at King William's College , Isle of Man, and Trinity College, Cambridge. He served on the faculties of the University of Adelaide in Australia ( 1886- 1908), the University of Leeds ( 1909- 15), and the University of LondonThe University of London founded in 1836, is a federation of colleges which together constitute one of the world's largest universities. Somewhere between 10 and 20 percent of all UK students attend one of its colleges, which include some of the most pres ( 1915- 23Centuries: 19th century 20th century 21st century Decades: 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s Years: 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 Events January 1 Grouping of all UK railway companies into four larg). From 1923 he was Fullerian professor of chemistry in the Royal InstitutionThe Royal Institution of Great Britain was set up in 1799 by the leading lights of the age, including Henry Cavendish and its first president George Finch, the 9th Earl of Winchilsea, for "diffusing the knowledge, and facilitating the general introduction and director of the Davy-Faraday research laboratory. He shared with his son William Lawrence BraggWilliam Lawrence Bragg ( March 31, 1890 July 1, 1971) was a physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1915. Bragg was born in Adelaide, South Australia. He was an impressionable boy and showed an early interest in science. His father, William Henry the 1915 Nobel Prize in PhysicsList of Nobel Prize laureates in Physics from 1901 to the present day. 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s External links Official site (source for all citatio for their studies, using the X-ray spectrometer, of X-ray spectra, X-ray diffraction, and of crystal structure. He became a Fellow of the Royal SocietyThe Royal Society of London is claimed to be the oldest learned society still in existence and was founded in 1660. The Royal Irish Academy, founded in 1782, is also closely affiliated with it. The Royal Society of Edinburgh (founded 1783) is a separate S in 1906 and served as president of the society from 1935Events January January 1 Italian colonies of Tripoli and Kyrenaika are joined together as Libya January 7 World War II: Italian premier Benito Mussolini and French foreign minister Pierre Laval conclude agreement in which each power undertakes not to oppo to 1940Events January-February January 5 FM radio is demonstrated to the FCC for the first time. January 6 World War II: Mass execution of Poles, committed by Germans in the Poznan, Warthegau. January 12 World War II: Russia bombs cities in Finland. February 2 F.External link
Bragg, William Henry
Bragg, William Henry
Bragg, William Henry
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