Features
- Cover Type: Hard Cover with 324 pages
- Published by: Oxford University Press, USA October 21, 2004
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 019852921X
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-0198529217
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Book Dimensions:
9.3 x 6.5 x 0.8 inches
- Weighs: 1.6 pounds
Product Review
`The book is well illustrated' Jeff Hughes, Ambix
` makes an great story ' Michael Woolfson FRS, University of York
Product Description
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 human being ever to win a Nobel Prize. It describes how bragg discovered how to use X-rays to determine the arrangement of atoms in crystals and his
pivotal role in developing this technique to the point that the structures of the most complex molecules known to man-the proteins and nucelic 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.
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