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William Lawrence Bragg was born on March 31, 1890, in Adelaide, South Australia andwas the first of three children. Five years later, Germany had stumbled upon the newphenomenon of x-rays, which would have a major impact on Bragg’s life later on. At nine yearsold, Lawrence enrolled in Queens School, excelling in mathematics, chemistry, and physics.During the year of 1901, Bragg started high school at Saint Peter’s College, Adelaide, where hestudied mathematics and chemistry and where physics were nonexistent. Because Lawrence wasso far ahead of his peers, he completed high school at the age of fifteen. Also in Lawrence’syouth, he used […]