ANSTO is one of the sponsors for a meeting today in Adelaide, Lawrence Bragg's birthplace, to celebrate 100 Years of X-ray Crystallography.
It was on 11 November 1912, that J. J. Thompson read out Lawrence Bragg's paper to the Cambridge Philosophical Society, showing that the diffraction spots in von Laue's photograph could be interpreted as due to reflection from planes of atoms and stating Bragg's Law in the form that we use it today.
For more detail, see a recent piece in Nature.
Published: 06/11/2012