Light is a messenger : the life and science of William Lawrence Bragg /

"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...

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Gespeichert in:
1. Verfasser:
Hunter, Graeme K.
Format:
Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:
Englisch
Veröffentlicht:
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.
Ausgabe:
1st ed.
Zusammenfassung:
"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.
Umfang:
xxi, 301 p. : ill.
Bibliografie:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
0-19-171293-0
1-280-84705-0
0-19-852921-X
0-19-152382-8
9780191523823
0191523828
Schlagworte:
Bragg, William Lawrence, > Sir, > 1890-1971.
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