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Crystal clear : the autobiographies of Sir Lawrence and Lady Bragg / edited by A.M. Glazer and Patience Thomson.

Title
Crystal clear : the autobiographies of Sir Lawrence and Lady Bragg / edited by A.M. Glazer and Patience Thomson.
Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom Oxford University Press, 2015.

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Additional Authors
  • Glazer, A. M. (Anthony Michael),
  • Thomson, Patience
Description
xx, 427 pages illustrations, portraits; 23 cm
Summary
The main body of this book contains the hitherto unpublished autobiographies of both William Lawrence Bragg, an innovative scientist who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1915, and his wife, Alice, a Mayor of Cambridge and National Chairman of Marriage Guidance. Their autobiographies give unusual insights into the lives and times of two distinguished people and the real personalities behind their public appearance.
Uniform Title
University press scholarship online.
Alternative Title
Autobiographies of Sir Lawrence and Lady Bragg
Subject
  • Bragg, Alice Grace Jenny, 1899-1989
  • Bragg, Alice
  • Bragg, William Lawrence, Sir, 1890-1971
  • Crystallography > History
  • Physicists > Great Britain > Biography
  • Physicists' spouses > Great Britain > Biography
  • Physics > History
  • X-ray crystallography
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
ISBN
  • 9780198744306
  • 0198744307
  • 9780191061790 (electronic bk.)
  • 0191061794 (electronic bk.)