"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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