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Light Is a Messenger

The Life and Science of William Lawrence Bragg

Medium: Buch
ISBN: 978-0-19-852921-7
Verlag: OUP Oxford
Erscheinungstermin: 12.08.2004
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"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-rays to determine the arrangement of atoms in crystals and his pivotal role in developing this technique to the point that structures of the most complex molecules known to Man - the proteins and nucleic acids - could be solved. Although Bragg's Nobel Prize was for physics, his research profoundly affected chemistry and the new field of molecular biology, of which he became a founding figure. This book explains how these revolutionary scientific events occurred while Bragg struggled to emerge from the shadow of his father, Sir William Bragg, and amidst a career-long rivalry with the brilliant American chemist, Linus Pauling.


Produkteigenschaften


  • Artikelnummer: 9780198529217
  • Medium: Buch
  • ISBN: 978-0-19-852921-7
  • Verlag: OUP Oxford
  • Erscheinungstermin: 12.08.2004
  • Sprache(n): Englisch
  • Auflage: Erscheinungsjahr 2004
  • Produktform: Gebunden, HC gerader Rücken kaschiert
  • Gewicht: 669 g
  • Seiten: 338
  • Format (B x H x T): 161 x 240 x 23 mm
  • Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt

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- 0: Introduction- 1: A shy and reserved person: Adelaide, 1886-1908- 2: Concatenation of fortunate circumstances: Cambridge, 1909-1914- 3: Our show is going famously: World War One, 1914-1919- 4: A system of simple and elegant architecture: Manchester, 1919-1930- 5: Plus-plus chemistry: Manchester, 1931-1937- 6: Supreme position in British physics: The National Physics Laboratory and Cambridge, 1937-1939- 7: He will have to be Sir Lawrence: World War Two, 1939-1945- 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, 1954-1966- 10: A very difficult affair indeed: Retirement, 1966-1971- 11: Epilogue