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Light is a Messenger
Graeme K. Hunter
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The Life and Science of William Lawrence Bragg
出版OUP Oxford, 2004-08-12
主題Science / Physics / GeneralScience / Physics / CrystallographyScience / Physics / Condensed MatterScience / Life Sciences / BiophysicsTechnology & Engineering / Materials Science / GeneralTechnology & Engineering / Engineering (General)Science / Life Sciences / Molecular Biology
ISBN01915238289780191523823
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=_wlREAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋"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.