Today we hosted a fascinating seminar on Australia's first Nobel Prize winners, the father and son team of William Henry and William Lawrence Bragg, after whom our Institute is named.
They were awarded the 1915 Nobel Prize in Physics, and Lawrence remains to this day the youngest Nobel laureate in any field, and by a wide margin.
The seminar speaker was Prof. John Jenkin of La Trobe University in Melbourne: Prof Jenkin has recently published a biography of the Braggs: "William and Lawrence Bragg, Father and Son: The Most Extraordinary Collaboration in Science".
The book particularly emphasises their life in Adelaide, where Lawrence was born, and the effect of the First World War on both men.
Published: 19/03/2009