Light is a Messenger: The Life and Science of William Lawrence Bragg

di Graeme K. Hunter (Autore)

Oxford University Press, 2004

"Light is a Messenger" is the first biography of William Lawrence Bragg, who was only 25 when he won the 1915 Nobel Prize in Physics - the youngest person ever to win a Nobel Prize. It describes how Bragg discovered the use of X-rays to determine the arrangement of atoms in crystals and his pivotal role in developing this technique to the point that structures of the most complex molecules known to Man - the proteins and nucleic acids - could be solved. Although Bragg's Nobel Prize was for physics, his research profoundly affected chemistry and the new field of molecular biology, of which he became a founding figure. This book explains how these revolutionary scientific events occurred while Bragg struggled to emerge from the shadow of his father, Sir William Bragg, and amidst a career-long rivalry with the brilliant American chemist, Linus Pauling.

• Autore: Graeme K. Hunter
• Editore: Oxford University Press
• Anno: 2004
• Rilegatura: Hardback
• Pagine: 338 p.
• Dimensioni: 242 x 164 mm
• Peso: 730 gr.
• EAN: 9780198529217

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