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William Henry Bragg

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William Henry Bragg

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British scientist (1862–1942)

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William Henry Bragg was a male person from the United States. He was born on 2 July 1862 and died on 10 March 1942. He is recognized in the Royal Society collection, the Nobel Laureates collection, and the Nobel Physics collection. He has an Erdős number of 7.

He is the author of works such as *Il mondo della luce*, *物とは何か*, *L'architettura delle cose*, *On the properties and natures of various electric radiations*, and *Concerning the nature of things*. He has received one Nobel Prize. His work is referenced by 609 other encyclopedia articles.

Synthesized by Vinony from 21 facts across 7 sources: Wikidata, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Nobel Prize, Vinony collections, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Born
2 July 1862
Died
10 March 1942
Works
45

Top works

  • Il mondo della luce
  • 物とは何か
  • L'architettura delle cose
  • On the properties and natures of various electric radiations
  • Concerning the nature of things

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
United States
Active from
1926-01-18
Active to
2004-09-01
Discogs

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. VMD: Visual molecular dynamics

    · 1996 · cited 62,873x

  2. Theory of the firm: Managerial behavior, agency costs and ownership structure

    · 1976 · cited 44,811x

  3. Comparison of simple potential functions for simulating liquid water

    · 1983 · cited 39,511x

  4. QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data

    · 2010 · cited 30,940x

  5. Preparation of Graphitic Oxide

    · 1958 · cited 28,680x

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Quotes

  • “On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays we use the wave theory; on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays we think in streams of flying energy quanta or corpuscles.”

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Nobel Prize

  • The Nobel Prize in Physics1915

    “for their services in the analysis of crystal structure by means of X-rays”

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Encyclopedic overview

Sir William Henry Bragg (2 July 1862 – 12 March 1942) was a British X-ray crystallographer who uniquely shared a Nobel Prize with his son Lawrence Bragg – the 1915 Nobel Prize in Physics "for their services in the analysis of crystal structure by means of X-rays," an important step in the development of X-ray crystallography.

Early life and education

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “William Henry Bragg” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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