Sir William Henry Bragg, O.M., F.R.S. (Reprinted from Current Science, vol 11, 1942)

摘要

BRITISH Science loses one of its most distinguished leaders in the death of Sir W. H. Bragg 'full of years and of honours' on the 12th of March 1942. Born in Great Britain and educated in the Isle of Man and at the Cambridge University, he went to Australia as Professor at the University of Adelaide in 1885 and by his work there won his election to the Fellowship of the Royal Society in 1906. He returned to Great Britain in 1909 as Professor at the Leeds University, moving to the University College, London as Quain Professor in 1915. He resigned this chair in 1923 to take up the Directorship at the Royal Institution, a position which he continued to hold till his death at the age of nearly 80 years.