Light is a messenger [[electronic resource] ] : the life and science of William Lawrence Bragg / / Graeme K. Hunter
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Hunter Graeme K
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| Titolo: |
Light is a messenger [[electronic resource] ] : the life and science of William Lawrence Bragg / / Graeme K. Hunter
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| Pubblicazione: | Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2004 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (335 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 530/.092 |
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| Soggetto topico: | X-ray crystallography |
| Physicists - Australia | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 A shy and reserved person: Adelaide, 1886-1908; 2 Concatenation of fortunate circumstances: Cambridge, 1909-14; 3 Our show is going famously: World War One; 4 A system of simple and elegant architecture: Manchester, 1919-30; 5 Plus-plus chemistry: Manchester, 1931-7; 6 Supreme position in British physics: The National Physical Laboratory and Cambridge, 1937-9; 7 He will have to be Sir Lawrence: World War Two; 8 A message in code which we cannot yet decipher: Cambridge, 1945-53 |
| 9 The art of popular lecturing on scientific subjects: The Royal Institution, 1954-6610 A very difficult affair indeed: Retirement, 1966-71; References; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | ""Light is a Messenger"" is the first biography of Sir Lawrence Bragg, the youngest person ever to win a Nobel Prize. Bragg won the Nobel Prize for discovering how to use X-rays to determine the atomic structures of crystals and molecules. He was director of the research unit in which James Watson and Francis Crick discovered the double helix structure of DNA. - ;""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-ray |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Light is a messenger |
| ISBN: | 1-280-84705-0 |
| 0-19-152382-8 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910465802303321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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