PROFESSOR AT TWENTY-NINE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17242, 19 August 1919, Page 8

PROFESSOR AT TWENTY-NINE.

The Chair of Physics at Manchester recently vacated by Sir Ernest Rutherford on his appointment to the Cavendish professorship at Cambridge, has been filled by the election of Mr. W. L. Brag" Mr. Bragg, who is 29 years of a?e, has had a sensational career, for he was famous five yea-re ago. His scientific ability is inherited, his father, Professor \V. H. Bragg being Professor of Physics at University College, London, and first made hi« name by his studies in radioActivity some years ago. Shortly before the war, when the etudy of X-rays had received' a new impetus from the work of. Lane and his collaborators, W. L. Bragg- Slit on a brilliant but simple idea of reflecting the rays from the faces of crystals, and bo investigating both the nature of A-rays and the structure of crystal*. -In -collaboration with his father lie carried out an important series of r.'Pcarcljes on this subject, which led to fntber and son receiving jointly the Nobel prize in 1915. Mr.' Bragg was on active service m France from 1915 onwards, aria rendered important services in connection" with the location of hostile guns."*<9«W X •■; hi '.'i It, I^. r'-:'/, .:.:'' r -::? ] "■• r»iv. -' "nt