Crystal clear : the autobiographies of Sir Lawrence and Lady Bragg /

The main body of this book contains the hitherto unpublished autobiographies of both William Lawrence Bragg, an innovative scientist who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1915, and his wife, Alice, a Mayor of Cambridge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 i...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Glazer, A. M. (Anthony Michael) (Editor ), Thomson, Patience (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2015.
Edición:First edition.
Temas:
Bragg, William Lawrence, > Sir, > 1890-1971.
Bragg, Alice Grace Jenny, > 1899-1989.
Physicists > Great Britain > Biography.
Physics > History.
Crystallography > History.
Physique > Histoire.
Cristallographie > Histoire.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Science & Technology.
SCIENCE > Energy.
SCIENCE > Mechanics > General.
SCIENCE > Physics > General.
Crystallography.
Physicists.
Physics.
Great Britain.
Autobiography
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Foreword
  • Contents
  • 1. Meet my Mother and Father (by Patience Thomson)
  • 1.1 Introduction
  • 1.2 Personalities
  • 1.3 Meet my Mother
  • 1.4 Meet my Father
  • 1.5 Family Homes
  • 2. William Lawrence Bragg (In his own Words)
  • 2.1 Growing Up in Australia
  • 2.2 The Journey to England
  • 2.3 The Cavendish Laboratory
  • 2.4 War!
  • 2.5 Manchester Days
  • 2.6 A Brief Interlude
  • 2.7 Return to Cambridge
  • 2.8 Another War Ended
  • 3. Alice Grace Jenny Bragg: 'The Half Was Not Told'
  • 3.1 My Hopkinson Grandparents
  • 3.2 Aunt Mary and Others3.3 My Mother's Family
  • 3.4 My Mother's Diary
  • 3.5 Childhood at Parsonage Nook
  • 3.6 Boarding School
  • 3.7 Family Holidays
  • 3.8 A Year at Home
  • 3.9 Student at Cambridge
  • 3.10 Engagement and Marriage
  • 3.11 Life in Manchester
  • 3.12 The 'Manchester School'
  • 3.13 Travels Abroad
  • 3.14 'Farewell to Manchester'
  • 3.15 Wartime in Cambridge
  • 3.16 His Worship Mr Mayor
  • 3.17 The Royal Institution: A Difficult Decision
  • Suggestions for Further Reading
  • Name Index

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