The man who almost discovered the double helix
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The History of X-Ray Crystallography
In 1915, Bragg and his son Lawrence won the Nobel Prize in physics for their discovery that X-rays could reveal an awful lot more than just broken bones. They developed this method a few years earlier, 1912, 1913, while Bragg was Cavendish Professor of Physics at Leeds. In 1928, Asprey came up to take up the newly created post-lecturing textile physics which he was very enthusiastic about.
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