Crystal clear : the autobiographies of Sir Lawrence and Lady Bragg / edited by A.M. Glazer and Patience Thomson.

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Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2015Edition: First editionDescription: 1 online resource (xx, 427 pages) : illustrations, portraitsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780191061790
0191061794
0198744307
9780198744306
9780191805721
0191805726
0191061808
9780191061806

Other title:

Autobiographies of Sir Lawrence and Lady Bragg

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Crystal clear.DDC classification:

530.092 B 23

LOC classification:

QC16.B66 C79 2015

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Contents:

""Cover""; ""Foreword""; ""Contents""; ""1. Meet my Mother and Father (by Patience Thomson)""; ""1.1 Introduction""; ""1.2 Personalities""; ""1.3 Meet my Mother""; ""1.4 Meet my Father""; ""1.5 Family Homes""; ""2. William Lawrence Bragg (In his own Words)""; ""2.1 Growing Up in Australia""; ""2.2 The Journey to England""; ""2.3 The Cavendish Laboratory""; ""2.4 War!""; ""2.5 Manchester Days""; ""2.6 A Brief Interlude""; ""2.7 Return to Cambridge""; ""2.8 Another War Ended""; ""3. Alice Grace Jenny Bragg: 'The Half Was Not Told'""; ""3.1 My Hopkinson Grandparents""

""3.2 Aunt Mary and Others""""3.3 My Mother's Family""; ""3.4 My Mother's Diary""; ""3.5 Childhood at Parsonage Nook""; ""3.6 Boarding School""; ""3.7 Family Holidays""; ""3.8 A Year at Home""; ""3.9 Student at Cambridge""; ""3.10 Engagement and Marriage""; ""3.11 Life in Manchester""; ""3.12 The 'Manchester School'""; ""3.13 Travels Abroad""; ""3.14 'Farewell to Manchester'""; ""3.15 Wartime in Cambridge""; ""3.16 His Worship Mr Mayor""; ""3.17 The Royal Institution: A Difficult Decision""; ""Suggestions for Further Reading""; ""Name Index""

Summary: The main body of this book contains the hitherto unpublished autobiographies of both William Lawrence Bragg, an innovative scientist who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1915, and his wife, Alice, a Mayor of Cambridge and National Chairman of Marriage Guidance. Their autobiographies give unusual insights into the lives and times of two distinguished people and the real personalities behind their public appearance.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

The main body of this book contains the hitherto unpublished autobiographies of both William Lawrence Bragg, an innovative scientist who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1915, and his wife, Alice, a Mayor of Cambridge and National Chairman of Marriage Guidance. Their autobiographies give unusual insights into the lives and times of two distinguished people and the real personalities behind their public appearance.