Jenkin, John

William and Lawrence Bragg, father and son the most extraordinary collaboration in science / [electronic resource] : John Jenkin. - Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2008. - 1 online resource (xiv, 458 p.) : ill., geneal. table, map, ports.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

This joint biography is of William and Lawrence Bragg, who changed all of science in the 20th-century with the development of X-ray crystallography, and by mentoring the mid-century discovery of the structure of DNA. Their stories are vivid examples of science teaching and research in a colonial setting (Australia).

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Bragg, William Lawrence, Sir, 1890-1971.
Bragg, William Henry, Sir, 1862-1942.


Physicists--Australia--Biography.
X-ray crystallography.


Electronic books.

QC16.B658

530.0922