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Cavendish Laboratory : Portrait of W.Lawrence Bragg

Cavendish Laboratory

<p style='text-align: justify;'>Sir William Lawrence Bragg was the Cavendish Professor from 1938 to 1953. He was a pioneer of X-ray crystallography and was jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics with his father William Bragg for their discovery of the X-ray diffraction law. Bragg developed the Group structure of the Laboratory after the second world war and encouraged strongly the development of the X-ray crystallography of biological molecules, leading to the determination of the structures of the DNA molecule by Watson and Crick and of myoglobin and haemoglobin by Kendrew and Perutz.</p>


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