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050	0	0	_aQC16.B658 _bH86 2004
100	1		_aHunter, Graeme K. _943835
245	1	0	_aLight is a Messenger : _bThe Life and Science of William Lawrence Bragg / _cGraeme K. Hunter.
260			_aOxford ; _aNew York : _bOxford University Press, _c2004.
300			_axxi, 301 p. : _bill. ; _c25 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505			_a0. 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			_aLight 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	1	0	_aBragg, William Lawrence, _cSir, _d1890-1971. _943836
650		0	_aX-ray crystallography. _943837
650		0	_aPhysicists _zAustralia _943838
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