Light Is a Messenger: The Life and Science of William Lawrence Bragg

by Graeme K. Hunter

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 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019852921X
• ISBN13: 9780198529217
• Release Date: October 2004
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 338 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.6"