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Two Braggs Crystallography Quiz

Stephen Soanes, Support Officer at the Wolfson Research Exchange and PG Hub

Published August 2013

A fun quiz to test your knowledge on William Lawrence Bragg and Sir William Henry Bragg, the father and son team who were awarded the Nobel Prize in 1915.


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How much do you know about the two Braggs? – The father and son team who were awarded the Nobel Prize in 1915 "for their services in the analysis of crystal structure by means of X-rays". You don’t need to be a Nobel Laureate to take part; Stephen Soanes has kindly put together a quiz that's just for fun and where you will hopefully learn something new about these two scientists.


Which of these discoveries cannot be attributed to Lawrence Bragg?
In 1971, Max Perutz claimed that Lawrence Bragg’s work had had a “revolutionary impact” on which fields?
Who applied the Braggs’ crystallographic techniques to model the structure of penicillin – work for which she received the Nobel Prize in 1964?
Approximately how many Nobel Prizes have been attributed to work related to the two Braggs’ crystallography since 1912?
The two Braggs proved in 1912 that X-rays were waves. Until this point, what was the main opposing theory?
What common crystalline substance did Lawrence Bragg first model, in its entirety at an atomic level, through the technique of X-ray diffraction?
Which of these scientific apparatus was developed by William Bragg in the 1910s? (Pictured, left)
How does the X-ray spectroscopy developed by the two Braggs measure X-ray wavelengths?
Who discovered lysozyme in 1922?
On which island did William Bragg receive his education?
How many years did William Bragg research and lecture at Australian universities, before returning to England?
What hobby did William and Lawrence Bragg share, which utilised their talents of visualisation in other ways?
Whose daughter later wrote that her father avoided committees and administration “because life was too short to spend on activities that were uncongenial?”
How old was Lawrence Bragg when he became the youngest ever Nobel Laureate?
Whose studies into diffraction provided the main impetus for the two Braggs to develop their theory and technique of X-ray diffraction in the summer of 1912?
Lars Vegard had an instrumental role in reporting early work in Germany on X-ray diffraction to the Braggs. Which country did he come from?
William Bragg corresponded with the so-called ‘father of nuclear physics’, after replacing him as Professor of Physics at Manchester in 1929. What was his name?
On William Bragg’s death in 1942, which other famous scientist and fellow Director of the Royal Institution was he compared to by the Lancet?
What medium is Lawrence Bragg best known for using, in order to bring physics to a wider popular audience?
Lawrence Bragg received an invitation to write the preface for which seminal mid-twentieth-century book?
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Stephen SoanesStephen Soanes is Support Officer at the Wolfson Research Exchange and PG Hub. His doctoral research explored the changing place of convalescence in the public mental hospital system and wider community. He was previously the Research Assistant on the Early Women Biochemists Project (History and Life Sciences).

 

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