Why Nobel-Winning Scientists are Getting Older
In 1915 William Lawrence Bragg won the Nobel Prize in Physics, for “services in the analysis of crystal structure by means of X-ray.” He was born in 1890, and at the time of the award, he was only 25 years old. At the time of his discovery, which makes it possible to study the atomic structure of a crystal by observing the way it deflects an X-ray beam, he was 22-year-old research student.
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