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...there that the best shape for the Queen Mary's hull was worked out. On the lower floor of the palace, technicians are busy in their workrooms. In 30 rooms on the upper two floors, recently refurbished, lives one of Britain's most distinguished scientists, William Lawrence Bragg, an authority on electricity and crystallography who became director of the National Physical Laboratories last year. On their grass tennis court he and his handsome, winsome wife play tennis (Professor Bragg usually but not always wins), and on their smooth green lawn the Braggs and their four children have picnic...
Last week there was an unwonted scurry and bustle on the top floors of King William's palace. The reason was not the war panic swirling over Europe, but the fact that William Lawrence Bragg, having hardly settled down at Teddington, had been appointed to a newer and loftier post: Cavendish Professor at Cambridge University. "Cavendish Professor" means director of the Cavendish Laboratory for experimental physics. This post, which Bragg takes over this week, is regarded- in England at least-as the world's top scientific...
...Braggs. Such is the domain which comes into the hands of Sir William Lawrence Bragg, fifth Cavendish Professor. Like his predecessor, Lord Rutherford, Professor Bragg, 48, was born in the Dominions. His father is Sir William Henry Bragg, who has a scientific reputation no less lustrous than his son's. In 1885 the elder Bragg sailed from England to assume a professorship of mathematics and physics at the University of Adelaide in Australia. Primarily a mathematician, he bought a batch of textbooks, boned up on physics during the voyage...
...Australia by Frederick Soddy, famed pioneer in the study of isotopes. When William was 18 his father returned to England to assume a professorship at Leeds. William graduated from Cambridge's Trinity College, started research work at Cavendish under Electron-Discoverer Thomson. About that time the elder Bragg showed his son some reports by Germany's Max von Laue. who was finding curious bright spots when X-rays are diffracted by crystals. Father and son joined forces, undertook intensive study of X-ray diffraction. They not only measured the wave lengths of X-rays (thousands of times shorter...
...been announced that the following have won scholarships: John B. Addington, East Aurora, Ill.; John F. Ambrose, Ozone Park, N. Y.; Nathan Belfer, Brooklyn, N. Y.; Harry E. von Bergen, Roslindale, Mass.; Milliam A. Betz, Columbia, Mo.; Robert M. Boyd, New York, N. Y.; John K. Bragg, Charleston, S. C.; John C. Brechin, Bristol, R. I.; Loring T. Briggs, Taunton, Mass.; Ferdinand F. Bruck, Bonn Rhein, Germany; John P. R. Budlong, East Greenwich, R. I.; Myron I. Burnes, Brookline, Mass...