William Henry Bragg and William Lawrence Bragg blue plaque

This blue commemorative plaque records: Sir Lawrence Bragg 1890-1971 Langworthy Professor of Physics at the University, 1919-1937. Nobel laureate and founder of X-ray crystallography, jointly with his father, Sir William Henry Bragg. Recorded plaque organisation: University of Manchester.

Sir William Henry Bragg and Sir William Lawrence Bragg were pioneering physicists who jointly won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1915 for their services in the analysis of crystal structure by means of X-rays, founding the field of X-ray crystallography.