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William Lawrence Bragg: The Pioneer of X‐ray Crystallography and His Pervasive Influence
Author(s) -
Thomas John Meurig
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.201206509
Subject(s) - bragg's law , reflection (computer programming) , crystallography , diffraction , x ray , x ray crystallography , crystal (programming language) , materials science , optics , physics , chemistry , computer science , programming language
A new age dawned when 22‐year‐old William Lawrence Bragg (see picture) realized that the observations of X‐ray diffraction by a crystal can be interpreted very simply as arising from the reflection of the X‐rays by planes of atoms in the crystal. In the 100 years since this insight X‐ray diffraction has transformed chemistry, mineralogy, metallurgy, and, most recently, biology.