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Sir William Lawrence Bragg was an Australian-born British physicist and Nobel Prize winner. Bragg shared the 1915 Nobel Prize in physics with his father, British physicist Sir William Henry Bragg, for their work in establishing X-ray crystallography, the study of crystal structures with X rays.
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.... developed to interpret the photographic interference pictures that two of von Laue's colleagues had produced by directing X rays through crystals.
Lawrence Bragg and his father had begun discussing von Laue's findings in 1912, and worked together to treat them mathematically and simplify their interpretation. Lawrence Bragg discovered that certain planes in a crystal reflect X rays, in accordance with the normal law of reflection. The distance between parallel planes of atoms determines the angle at which reflection can take place for a certain wavelength of the ....
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