| Lawrence Bragg  AKA William Lawrence Bragg
Born: 31-Mar-1890
Birthplace: Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Died: 1-Jul-1971
Location of death: Ipswich, Suffolk, England
Cause of death: unspecified
Remains: Buried, Trinity Chapel College, Cambridge University, England
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Physicist Nationality: England
Executive summary: Bragg's Law of diffraction Father: William Bragg (physicist)
Mother: Gwendoline Todd
Wife: Alice Hopkinson (m. 1921)
University: Trinity College, Cambridge University
Professor: Langworthy Professor of Physics, Victoria University of Manchester (1919-37)
Professor: Cavendish Professor of Physics, Cambridge University (1938-53)
Nobel Prize for Physics 1915 (with William Bragg)
Matteucci Medal 1915 (with William Bragg)
Royal Medal 1946
Copley Medal 1966
Knighthood 1941
Royal Society 1921
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