[brag] 
| 1. | Brax⋅ton [brak-stuh n] , 1817–76, Confederate general in the U.S. Civil War. |
| 2. | Sir William Henry, 1862–1942, and his son, Sir William Lawrence, 1890–1971, English physicists: Nobel prize winners 1915. |
| Bragg (brāg) Pronunciation Key
British physicist who invented the x-ray spectrometer, a device used to measure x-ray wavelengths. With his son, the physicist Sir William Lawrence Bragg (1890-1971), he developed the technique of x-ray crystallography, used to determine the atomic structure of crystals. Father and son were awarded a joint Nobel Prize for physics in 1915 for this work. |