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Light is a Messenger$
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Graeme K. Hunter

Print publication date: 2004

Print ISBN-13: 9780198529217

Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: January 2010

DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198529217.001.0001

(p. xiii ) Introduction

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Light is a Messenger
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Graeme K. Hunter

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Oxford University Press
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198529217.003.0001

This introductory chapter presents an overview of the life and achievements of William Lawrence Bragg. Bragg won the 1915 Nobel Prize in physics when he was twenty-five years old; to the present day, he remains the youngest person ever to win a Nobel Prize. Bragg's scientific work touched upon several disciplines, including chemistry, biology, and mineralogy. Its overarching theme, however, was the use of X-rays to determine the structures of crystals (or molecules in the crystalline state).

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