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Sir Lawrence Bragg
(31 Mar 1890 - 1 Jul 1971)
Australian-English physicist and X-ray crystallographer.
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Science Quotes by Sir Lawrence Bragg (2)
God runs electromagnetics on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday by the wave theory, and the devil runs it by quantum theory on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday.
— Sir Lawrence Bragg
In Daniel J. Kevles, The Physicists (1978), 159.
The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.
— Sir Lawrence Bragg
Quoted in Arthur Koestler and J. R. Smithies, Beyond Reductionism (1958), 115.
Quotes by others about Sir Lawrence Bragg (1)
The whole subject of the X rays is opening out wonderfully, Bragg has of course got in ahead of us, and so the credit all belongs to him, but that does not make it less interesting. We find that an X ray bulb with a platinum target gives out a sharp line spectrum of five wavelengths which the crystal separates out as if it were a diffraction grating. In this way one can get pure monochromatic X rays. Tomorrow we search for the spectra of other elements. There is here a whole new branch of spectroscopy, which is sure to tell one much about the nature of an atom.
Letter to his mother (18 May 1913). In J. L. Heilbron (ed.), H. G. J. Moseley: The Life and Letters of an English Physicist 1887-1915 (1974), 205.
See also: | Atom (97) | Crystal (10) | Diffraction (2) | Element (28) | Platinum (2) | Spectroscopy (7) | Spectrum (10) | X-ray (8)
