William Lawrence Bragg

William Lawrence Bragg was a British physicist known for his pioneering work in crystallography, the study of the arrangement of atoms in crystalline solids. In 1913, he developed Bragg's Law, which relates the angles at which X-rays are scattered by crystals to their atomic structure. This breakthrough allowed scientists to determine the structures of various materials, including minerals and complex biological molecules like proteins and DNA. For his contributions, he shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1915 with his father, William Henry Bragg, significantly advancing the field of X-ray crystallography and influencing numerous scientific disciplines.