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081202s2004 enka |b 001 0beng |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
019852921X (hardback : acidfree paper) |
| 039 #9 - LEVEL OF BIBLIOGRAPHIC CONTROL AND CODING DETAIL [OBSOLETE] |
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201402040110 |
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VLOAD |
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201009200927 |
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malmash |
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200812060933 |
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venkatrajand |
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200812021203 |
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Noora |
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200812021201 |
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Noora |
| 050 00 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER |
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QC16.B658 |
| Item number |
H86 2004 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Hunter, Graeme K. |
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43835 |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Light is a Messenger : |
| Remainder of title |
The Life and Science of William Lawrence Bragg / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. |
Graeme K. Hunter. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc. |
Oxford ; |
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New York : |
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Oxford University Press, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. |
2004. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
xxi, 301 p. : |
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ill. ; |
| Dimensions |
25 cm. |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
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| Bibliography, etc. note |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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| Formatted contents note |
0. Introduction; 1. A shy and reserved person: Adelaide, 1886-1908; 2. Concatenation of fortunate circumstances: Cambridge, 1909-1914; 3. Our show is going famously: World War One, 1914-1919; 4. A system of simple and elegant architecture: Manchester, 1919-1930; 5. Plus-plus chemistry: Manchester, 1931-1937; 6. Supreme position in British physics: The National Physics Laboratory and Cambridge, 1937-1939; 7. He will have to be Sir Lawrence: World War Two, 1939-1945; 8. A message in code which we cannot yet decipher: Cambridge, 1945-53; 9. The art of popular lecturing on scientific subjects: The Royal Institution, 1954-1966; 10. A very difficult affair indeed: Retirement, 1966-1971; 11. Epilogue |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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Light is a Messenger is the first biography of William Lawrence Bragg, who was only 25 when he won the 1915 Nobel Prize in Physics - the youngest person ever to win a Nobel Prize. It describes how Bragg discovered the use of X-rays to determine the arrangement of atoms in crystals and his pivotal role in developing this technique to the point that structures of the most complex molecules known to Man - the proteins and nucleic acids - could be solved. Although Bragg's Nobel Prize was for physics, his research profoundly affected chemistry and the new field of molecular biology, of which he became a founding figure. This book explains how these revolutionary scientific events occurred while Bragg struggled to emerge from the shadow of his father, Sir William Bragg, and amidst a career-long rivalry with the brilliant American chemist, Linus Pauling. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Bragg, William Lawrence, |
| Titles and other words associated with a name |
Sir, |
| Dates associated with a name |
1890-1971. |
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43836 |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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X-ray crystallography. |
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43837 |
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Physicists |
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Australia |
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43838 |
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Library of Congress Classification |
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No |
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Books |
