William henry bragg

Field	Information
Full Name	William Henry Bragg
Date of Birth	31 March 1862
Place of Birth	Longwood, Cumberland, England
Date of Death	12 March 1942
Place of Death	London, England
Citizenship / Country of Residence	United Kingdom
Education	University of Cambridge
Profession	Physicist, Chemist
Years of Activity	1886 - 1942
Brief Information	William Henry Bragg was a British physicist and chemist, best known for his work on X-ray crystallography. He shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1915 with his son, William Lawrence Bragg, for their work on the analysis of crystal structure by means of X-rays. His work laid the foundation for understanding the arrangement of atoms in solids.