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Bragg, Sir William (666 words) |
 | William Bragg came on his father's side from a family without academic traditions, mainly yeoman farmers and merchant seamen. |
| It was this early training that enabled him, later (in 1912), after his return to England, to design the Bragg ionization spectrometer, the prototype of all modern X-ray and neutron diffractometers, with which he made the first exact measurements of X-ray wavelengths and crystal data. |
| Bragg and his elder son, Lawrence, who was studying physics at Cambridge, then began to apply X rays to the study of crystal structure. |
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