ISBN: 9780198529217

Light 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 descr… More...

Light 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 how to use X-rays to determine the arrangement of atoms in crystals and his pivotal role in developing this technique to the point that the structures of the most complex molecules known to man-the proteins and nucelic 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. New Textbooks>Trade Paperback>Biography>Science Biog,Memoir>Science Biog,Memoir, Oxford University Press Core >1 >T<

ISBN: 9780198529217

Light 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 desc… More...

Light 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 hispivotal 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, ofwhich 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. | Light is a Messenger by Graeme K. Hunter Hardcover | Indigo Chapters Books > Science & Nature > Math & Physics > Physics P10117, Graeme K. Hunter<

2004, ISBN: 9780198529217

The Life and Science of William Lawrence Bragg, Buch, Hardcover, [PU: Oxford University Press], Oxford University Press, 2004