William Henry Bragg blue plaque

This blue commemorative plaque records: Sir William Bragg (1862-1942) Cavendish Professor of Physics at the University of Leeds 1909-1916 developed here the first x-ray spectrometer and pioneered the x-ray analysis of crystal structures. Joint nobel laureate for physics in 1915 with his son Sir Lawrence Bragg Recorded plaque organisation: Institute of Physics.

Sir William Henry Bragg was a physicist who significantly advanced the field of X-ray crystallography, developing the first X-ray spectrometer at the University of Leeds; he shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1915 with his son Lawrence for their services in the analysis of crystal structure by means of X-rays.