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William Henry Bragg
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<p>Sir William Henry Bragg (2 July 1862 – 12 March 1942) was an English <a href="/facts/Physicist/cQcgvSIm">physicist</a> and <a href="/facts/X-ray_crystallographer/WtI0F5DN">X-ray crystallographer</a> who uniquely shared a <a href="/facts/Nobel_Prize/3z1Y3oFL">Nobel Prize</a> with his son <a href="/facts/Lawrence_Bragg/MGbHcMPa">Lawrence Bragg</a> – the 1915 <a href="/facts/Nobel_Prize_in_Physics/o6w1nCbr">Nobel Prize in Physics</a>: "for their services in the <a href="/facts/X-ray_crystallography/WtI0F5DN">analysis</a> of <a href="/facts/Crystal_structure/bJ4bCeHd">crystal structure</a> by means of <a href="/facts/X-ray/wseP79cN">X-rays</a>". </p>