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Authorised form of nameBragg; Sir; William Henry (1862 - 1942); physicist
Dates1862 - 1942
NationalityBritish
Place of birthWestward, Cumberland, England
Date of birth02 July 1862
Place of deathLondon
Date of death12/03/1942
Research fieldPhysics
ActivityEducation:
King William's College, Castletown, Isle of Man (1875-1881); Trinity College, Cambridge. MA
Career:
Eider Professor of Mathematics and Physics, Adelaide University, South Australia (1886-1908); Member, Council of University of Adelaide (1898); Cavendish Professor, Leeds University (1909-1915); Quain Professor of Physics, London University (1915-1923); Resident Director of Research, Admiralty Experimental Station (1916-1917); Scientific Member, Anti-submarine Division, Admiralty (1918); Honorary Fellow, Trinity College, Cambridge (1920); Director, Royal Institution; Fullerian Professor of Chemistry, Royal Institution; Director of Davy-Faraday Research Laboratory (1923); Member, Advisory Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (1937)
Medals and prizes:
Nobel Prize (Physics) 1915
Honours:
CBE 1917; KBE 1920; OM 1931
Memberships:
London Old King William's College Society (President 1933)
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election02/05/1907
Royal Society activityRoyal Society roles:
VP 1920-1922, 1923-1925; PRS 1935-1940
Medals and prizes:
Rumford Medal 1916; Copley Medal 1930
Lectures:
Bakerian 1915; Pilgrim Trust 1939
RelationshipsSon-in-law of Sir Charles Todd (FRS 1889); father of William Lawrence Bragg (FRS 1921)
SourcesSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DSB; King William's College Society
Obituaries:
Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society 1942-1944 vol 4 pp 277-300, plate, by E N da C Andrade, with a bibliography by K Lonsdale
References:
John G Jenkin, 'The Appointment of W H Bragg, FRS, to the University of Adelaide' in NR 1985-86 vol 40 pp 75-99, plate
William McGucken, 'The Royal Society and the Genesis of the Scientific Advisory Committee to Britain's War Cabinet, 1939-1940' in NR 1978-9 vol 33 pp 87-115
Sir Lawrence Bragg and G M Caroe, 'Sir William Bragg, FRS (1862-1942)' in NR 1962 vol 17 pp 169-182, plate
R W Home, 'The Royal Society and the Empire: the colonial and Commonwealth Fellowship. Part 2. After 1847' in NR 2003 vol 57 pp 47-84
J S Rowlinson, 'A national treasure house. <i>'The common purposes of life': science and society at the Royal Institution of Great Britain</i> ed Frank A J L James ' in NR 2004 vol 58 pp 105-106
D Blow and S Wallwork, 'Prehistory of the British Crystallographic Association' in NR 2004 vol 58 pp 177-186
J M Thomas ' Picking winners: W H and W L Bragg at the Royal Institution' NR 2011 vol 65 pp 163-182, and correction at NR 2011 vol 65 p 317
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/71473666
Royal Society codeNA8140
Archives associated with this Fellow
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EC/1907/06Bragg, Sir William Henry: certificate of election to the Royal Society
EC/1907/05Bragg, Sir William Henry: certificate of election to the Royal Society
MS/928/6/3/8Letter from William Henry Bragg, Watlands, Chiddingfold, Surrey, to Andrew Russell Forsyth7 August [1935]
NLB/66/32Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir William [Henry] Bragg, FRS12 February 1924
MDA/A/10Correspondence of William Henry Bragg1939-1941
MDA/A/11Correspondence relating to the death and memorial service of William Henry Bragg1942
NLB/69/711Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to William [Henry] Bragg, K. B. E., FRS3 September 1926
MDA/A/23/2Copy letter from William Henry Bragg, to Sir Henry Thomas Tizard, 4 Winchester Road, Oxford24 October 1940
NLB/48/264Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor [William Henry] Bragg, Fellow of the Royal Society6 June 1913
MDA/A/22/66Letter from Thomas Holland to William Bragg, University of Edinburgh12 September 1939
MDA/A/22/67Copy letter from William Bragg to Thomas Holland13 September 1939
MDA/A/22/68Letter from Thomas Holland to William Bragg, University of Edinburgh16 September 1939
MDA/A/22/74Copy letter from Albert C Seward to William Bragg, with copy of 'The Schedule of reserved occupations and the Defence Service' by Albert C Seward10 November 1939
MDA/A/22/69Copy letter from John David Griffith Davies [Assistant Secretary of Royal Society] to William Bragg, with attached draft statement28 September 1939
P/0013Portrait of Bragg, Sir William Henry1941
NLB/39/217Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Harrison & Sons12 December 1908
NLB/41/748Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor William Henry Bragg, Fellow of the Royal Society 19 February 1910
NLB/41/681Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor William Henry Bragg, Fellow of the Royal Society3 February 1910
NLB/42/235Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor W [William] H [Henry] Bragg FRS29 April 1910
NLB/48/631Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor [William Henry] Bragg, Fellow of the Royal Society14 August 1913
NLB/43/590Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor William Henry Bragg, Fellow of the Royal Society18 February 1911
NLB/43/568Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor William Henry Bragg, Fellow of the Royal Society13 February 1911
NLB/47/714Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor W [William] H [Henry] Bragg FRS31 March 1913
NLB/48/369Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor [William Henry] Bragg, Fellow of the Royal Society23 June 1913
NLB/47/9Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor W [William] H [Henry] Bragg FRS13 November 1912
NLB/48/165Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor [William Henry] Bragg, Fellow of the Royal Society27 May 1913
NLB/48/618Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor [William Henry] Bragg, Fellow of the Royal Society9 August 1913
NLB/48/213Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor [William Henry] Bragg, Fellow of the Royal Society30 May 1913
NLB/48/315Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor [William Henry] Bragg, Fellow of the Royal Society13 June 1913
NLB/59/187Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir William [Henry] Bragg, FRS23 July 1920
NLB/48/596Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor [William Henry] Bragg, Fellow of the Royal Society1 August 1913
NLB/48/574Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor [William Henry] Bragg, Fellow of the Royal Society28 July 1913
NLB/51/408Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society to Professor William Henry Bragg FRS13 March 1915
NLB/50/399Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor [William Henry] Bragg, Fellow of the Royal Society3 July 1914
NLB/51/437Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society To Professor William Henry Bragg FRS19 March 1915
NLB/51/705Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society to Professor William Henry Bragg FRS31 May 1915
RR/20/12Referee's report by William Henry Bragg, on a paper 'The energy of röntgen rays' by R T BeattyJune 1913
NLB/52/273Copy letter from Arthur Schuster, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir William Henry Bragg, FRS1 November 1915
RR/19/69Referee's report by William Henry Bragg, on a paper 'On the emission velocities of photo-electrons' by A Ll Hughes[June 1912]
RR/19/25Referee's report by William Henry Bragg, on a paper 'A comparison of the spectra of fluorescent Röntgen radiations' by J Crosby Chapman[November 1912]
RR/22/25Referee's report by Charles Herbert Lees, on a paper 'X-rays and crystal structure' by William Henry Bragg1915
NLB/54/605Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Messrs Harrison & Sons29 June 1917
RR/18/190Referee's report by William Henry Bragg, on a paper 'The production and properties of soft Röntgen radiation' by R WhiddingtonFebruary 1911
NLB/54/135Copy letter from [Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society]; to Professor [William Henry] Bragg, FRS8 February 1916
RR/26/120Referee's report by William Henry Bragg, on a paper 'On the Whispering-Gallery phenomenon' by Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman and G A Sutherland[October 1921]
RR/24/95Referee's report by William Henry Bragg, on a paper 'X-ray analysis of the crystal-structure of rutile and cassiterite' by C M Williams[April 1917]
NLB/61/1Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir William [Henry] Bragg, FRS 26 April 1921
RR/27/114Referee's report by William Henry Bragg, on a paper 'On the excitation of characteristic X-rays from light elements' by John Cunningham McLennan and M L ClarkSeptember 1922
NLB/53/584Copy letter from [Dr.] Arthur Schuster, Secretary of the Royal Society and FRS; to Professor [William Henry] Bragg, FRS02 November 1916
NLB/56/352Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [William Henry] Bragg, FRS18 January 1919
RR/22/24Referee's report by Arthur Schuster, on a paper 'X-rays and crystal structure' by William Henry Bragg1915
NLB/56/627Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [William Henry] Bragg, FRS1 April 1919
NLB/56/498Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Provost of University College25 February 1919
RR/33/20Second referee's report by William Henry Bragg, on a paper 'An investigation of the rate of growth of crystals in different directions' by Marie Bentivoglio
NLB/56/786Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [William Henry] Bragg, FRS23 May 1919
NLB/53/582Copy letter from [Dr.] Arthur Schuster, Secretary of the Royal Society and FRS; to The Deputy Master of the Mint02 November 1916
RR/33/19Referee's report by William Henry Bragg, on a paper 'An investigation of the rate of growth of crystals in different directions' by Marie BentivoglioJuly 1926
RR/33/66Referee's report by William Henry Bragg, on a paper 'Change of crystal structure of some salts when crystallised from silicic acid gel—the structure of silicic acid gel' by H A Fells and J B FirthJuly 1926
RR/36/27Referee's report by William Henry Bragg, on a paper 'On the reflexion of sound from a porous surface' by E T Paris[April 1927]
RR/40/73Referee's report by William Henry Bragg, on a paper 'The excitation of soft X-Rays from some polycrystalline metal surfaces' by Owen Willans Richardson and S. Ramachandra RaoApril 1930
NLB/59/902Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir William [Henry] Bragg, FRS27 November 1920
RR/44/99Referee's report by William Henry Bragg, on a paper 'The diffraction of electrons by single crystals' by Geoge Paget ThomsonJune 1931
NLB/59/713Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir [William Henry] Bragg, FRS5 November 1920
NLB/61/209Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir William [Henry] Bragg, FRS1 June 1921
RR/20/18Referee's report by William Henry Bragg, on a paper 'The fluctuation in the ionisation due to Y Rays' by P W BurbidgeMay 1913
NLB/59/303Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir [William Henry] Bragg, 32 Ladbroke Square, W.8 September 1920
NLB/59/79Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir William [Henry] Bragg, FRS15 July 1920
IM/000521Bragg, Sir William Henry1922
RR/40/71Referee's report by William Henry Bragg, on a paper 'A comparative study of the excitation of soft X-Rays from single crystal surfaces and from Polycrystalline surfaces Graphite and Aluminium' by Owen Willans Richardson and Ursula AndrewesApril 1930
RR/33/58Referee's report by William Henry Bragg, on a paper 'The L emission series of mercury' by C E Eddy and A H TurnerFebruary 1926
RR/20/140Referee's report by William Henry Bragg, on a paper 'On the recombination of the ions produced by Röntgen rays in gases and vapours' by H ThirkillApril 1913
NLB/59/529Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir William [Henry] Bragg, FRS13 October 1920
NLB/59/840Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir William [Henry] Bragg, FRS19 November 1920
RR/21/96Referee's report by William Henry Bragg, on a paper 'On the ionization produced by gas reactions' by S J Kalandyk[August 1914]
RR/49/21Referee's report by William Henry Bragg, on a paper 'On two variations of the powder method of x-ray analysis of crystals' by J P Blewett[October 1933]
NLB/61/210Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir William [Henry] Bragg, FRS2 June 1921
NLB/57/697Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to unknown correspondent17 January 1920
RR/50/113Referee's report by William Henry Bragg, on a paper 'Supersonic dispersion in gases' by E G RichardsonFebruary 1934
NLB/61/125Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir William [Henry] Bragg, FRS17 May 1921
NLB/64/513Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir William Bragg, FRS30 April 1923
NLB/61/221Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir William [Henry] Bragg, FRS2 June 1921
NLB/62/317Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir William [Henry] Bragg, FRS20 January 1922
NLB/57/693Copy letter from Sir William Bate Hardy, FRS, Secretary of the Royal Society; Professor [Sir] WH [William Henry] Bragg, FRS16 January 1920
NLB/66/383Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir William Bragg, FRS.29 April 1924
NLB/61/455Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir William [Henry] Bragg, FRS8 July 1921
NLB/63/641Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir William Bragg, K.B.E., FRS23 November 1922
NLB/67/247Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir William [Henry] Bragg, KBE, FRS21 November 1924
NLB/61/128Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir William [Henry] Bragg, FRS18 May 1921
NLB/63/363Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir William Bragg, FRS02 October 1922
RR/55/73Referee's report by William Henry Bragg, on a paper 'The crystal structure of ice at low temperatures' by E F Burton and W F OliverJuly 1935
RR/52/70Referee's report by William Henry Bragg, on a paper 'Physical properties of surfaces I - Kinetic friction' by Frank Philip Bowden and W G BeareAugust 1934
NLB/61/723Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir [William Henry] Bragg, FRS17 October 1921
RR/68/16Memoranda, on a paper 'The diffuse spots in X-ray crystal photographs' by William Henry Bragg10 July 1941
NLB/57/792Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor WH [William Henry] Bragg, FRS, CBE6 February 1920
NLB/62/660Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir William [Henry] Bragg, FRS31 March 1922
NLB/63/745Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir William Bragg, K.B.E., FRS08 December 1922
NLB/64/538Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir William Bragg, FRS03 May 1923
NLB/63/42Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir William Bragg, FRS16 June 1922
NLB/63/638Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society and FRS; to Sir William Bragg, FRS 21 November 1922
RR/40/66Referee's report by William Henry Bragg, on a paper 'The emission of secondary electrons and the excitation of soft X-rays' by Owen Willans RichardsonApril 1930
NLB/64/87Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir William [Henry] Bragg, Chairman of the National Committee for Physics30 January 1923
RR/66/55Referee's report by William Henry Bragg, on a paper 'Infra-red absorption spectrum of tetra-deuteroethylene' by G K T Conn and Gordon Brims Black Mcivor Sutherland[March 1939]
NLB/64/86Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir William [Henry] Bragg, FRS30 January 1923
NLB/57/394Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor WH [William Henry] Bragg, FRS [Knight Physicist]30 October 1919
NLB/57/861Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Acting Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor WH [Sir William Henry] Bragg, FRS, OBE25 February 1920
NLB/57/895Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Acting Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor Herbert McLeod, FRS28 February 1920
NLB/63/434Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society and FRS; to Sir William [Henry] Bragg, FRS13 October 1922
NLB/63/591Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir William Bragg, FRS10 November 1922
RR/68/104Letter from William Henry Bragg, to Winckworth, regarding a paper 'The fine structure of collenchyma cells in Heracleum Sphondylium L' by G P Majumdar and Reginald Dawson Preston17 June 1941
RR/68/210Referee's report by William Henry Bragg, on a paper 'Imperfections in the structure of cobalt II. Mathematical treatment of proposed structure' by A J C Wilson[1941]
RR/68/35Referee's report by William Henry Bragg, on a paper 'The structure of polychloroprene' by C J Birkett Clews[1941]
NLB/63/709Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir William Bragg, FRS04 December 1922
NLB/66/243Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir William Bragg, FRS24 March 1924
NLB/68/200Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir William [Henry] Bragg, FRS28 May 1925
NLB/65/294Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to The Lord Rayleigh [Robert John Strutt], FRS8 October 1923
RR/39/61Referee's report by William Henry Bragg, on a paper 'Measurement of absorbing power of materials by the stationary wave method' by A H Davis and E J Evans[January 1930]
NLB/65/902Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir William [Henry] Bragg, FRS25 January 1924
NLB/65/289Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society6 October 1923
NLB/65/622Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Frederick Alexander] Lindemann, FRS30 November 1923
RR/30/67Referee's report by William Henry Bragg, on a paper 'The analysis of the absorption spectrum of naphthalene vapour.—Structure and activation of the molecule of naphthalene' by Victor Henri and Henry de Làszlò[April 1924]
RR/31/11Referee's report by William Henry Bragg, on a paper 'Note on the expansion of water while freezing' by A P Lawrie[June 1924]
NLB/65/130Copy letter from [James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society]; to Sir William [Henry?] Bragg, FRS7 August 1923
NLB/65/439Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir William Bragg, FRS1 November 1923
NLB/65/341Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Lord Rayleigh [Robert John Strutt], FRS16 October 1923
NLB/65/625Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir William [Henry] Bragg, FRS30 November 1923
NLB/64/823Copy letter from William Bate Hardy, Secretary of the Royal Society; [Robert John Strutt] Lord Rayleigh26 June 1923
NLB/65/394Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Honourable Sir Charles [Algernon] Parsons, KCB, FRS; also sent to Professor [Charles Glover] Barkla, Professor [Arthur Stanley] Eddington, Sir [William Henry] Bragg, Professor [Thomas Ralph] Merton, Professor [Jocelyn Field] Thorpe, Sir [Frederick William] Andrewes, Professor [Edwin Stephen] Goodrich, Sir [Thomas Henry] Holland and Sir [Frederick William] Keeble.25 October 1923
NLB/67/40Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir William Bragg, KBE, FRS8 October 1924
NLB/66/53Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Robert John Strutt] Lord Rayleigh, FRS14 February 1924
NLB/65/583Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir William [Henry] Bragg, FRS23 November 1923
NLB/66/683Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir William Bragg, FRS19 June 1924
NLB/67/547Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir William [Henry] Bragg, FRS20 January 1925
RR/40/72Referee's report by William Henry Bragg, on a paper 'The excitation of soft X-rays from a single crystal face of nickel' by Owen Willans Richardson and S. Ramachandra RaoApril 1930
NLB/57/897Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Acting Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor WW [William Whitehead] Watts, FRS28 February 1920
NLB/66/410Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir William [Henry] Bragg, FRS3 May 1924
NLB/66/347Copy letter from [Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of] the Royal Society; to [Robert John Strutt] Lord Rayleigh, FRS12 April 1924
NLB/68/43Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir William [Henry] Bragg, KBE, FRS4 May 1925
NLB/66/283Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; [Robert John Strutt] Lord Rayleigh, FRS2 April 1924
NLB/66/710Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir William [Henry] Bragg, FRS24 June 1924
NLB/68/233Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir William Bragg, FRS3 June 1925
NLB/68/334Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to the General Secretary of the International Union of Physics; 45 Rue d'Ulm, Paris20 June 1925
NLB/68/337Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Richard [Tetley] Glazebrook, FRS20 June 1925
NLB/68/335Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Sydney] Chapman, FRS20 June 1925
NLB/66/654Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir William [Henry] Bragg, K.B.E, FRS13 June 1924
NLB/71/689Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir William [Henry] Bragg, K.B.E., FRS3 October 1928
NLB/69/616Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir William [Henry] Bragg, K.B.E., FRS25 June 1926
NLB/71/379Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Messrs G. Bell and Sons, Ltd., York House, Portugal Street, WC226 April 1928
NLB/69/580Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Willliam Bragg, FRS11 June 1926
NLB/69/613Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir William [Henry?] Bragg, K.B.E, FRS22 June 1926
NLB/69/645Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir William [Henry] Bragg, K.B.E., FRS9 July 1926
NLB/71/290Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir William [Henry] Bragg, K.B.E., FRS19 March 1928
NLB/71/138Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir William [Henry] Bragg, K.B.E., FRS20 January 1928
NLB/71/326Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir William [Henry] Bragg, K.B.E, FRS31 March 1928
NLB/73/109Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir William [Henry] Bragg, K.B.E., FRS10 December 1930
NLB/65/928Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Lord Rayleigh [Robert John Strutt], FRS31 January 1924
NLB/63New Letter Book volume 63, copy letters sent from Royal Society administration10 June 1922-19 January 1923
IM/000522Bragg, Sir William Henrynd
IM/Maull/000520Bragg, Sir William Henrynd
RR/27/62Referee's report by William Henry Bragg, on a paper 'Boundary lubrication - The paraffin series' by William Bate Hardy and Ida DoubledayJanuary 1922
NLB/56New Letter Book volume 56, copy letters sent from Royal Society administration1 November 1918-27 June 1919
NLB/48New Letter Book volume 48, copy letters sent from Royal Society administration25 April 1913-25 October 1913
RR/39/70Referee's report by William Henry Bragg, on a paper 'Quantitative analysis by X-ray spectroscopy' by C E Eddy and Thomas Howell Laby[January 1930]
RR/21/130Referee's report by William Henry Bragg, on a paper 'On the ionisation of gases by collision and the ionising potential for positive ions and negative corpuscles' by W I Pawlow[May 1914]
NLB/61/268Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir William [Henry] Bragg, FRS13 June 1921
RR/59/30Referee's report by William Henry Bragg, on a paper 'The structure of isatin - I' by Ernest Gordon Cox, T H Goodwin and A I Wagstaff[June 1936]
RR/66/317Communicator's report by William Henry Bragg, on a paper 'Structure and thermal properties associated with some hydrogen bonds in crystals. III. Further examples of the isotope effect' by Alfred Rene Jean Paul Ubbelohde23 September 1939
RR/68/132Referee's report by William Henry Bragg, on a paper 'The effect of thermal vibrations on the scattering of X-rays. II' by Kathleen Sarginson[1941]
NLB/57/701Copy letter from Sir William Bate Hardy, FRS, Secretary of the Royal Society [?]; to Admiral Sir Henry B [Braderwine] Jackson, FRS, GCB20 January 1920
NLB/62/650Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir William [Henry] Bragg, FRS31 March 1922
RR/45/21Referee's report by William Henry Bragg, on a paper 'Crystallography of the simpler quinones' by W A Casparind [January 1932]
NLB/71/565Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir William [Henry] Bragg, K.B.E, FRS [also send to Sir Henry Lyons, Sir Charles Sherrington and Sir John Farmer].6 July 1928
NLB/66/168Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Robert John Strutt] Lord Rayleigh, FRS6 March 1924
EC/1907/07Bragg, Sir William Henry: certificate of election to the Royal Society
MDA/C/5/1Correspondence and papers relating to the Curl Trust1938-1952
NLB/61New Letter Book volume 61, copy letters sent from Royal Society administration26 April 1921-11 November 1921
RR/66/26Referee's report by William Henry Bragg, on a paper 'X-Ray crystallography and the chemistry of the steroids. Part I' by John Desmond Bernal, Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin and I Fankuchen[April 1940]
NLB/66/878Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Robert John Strutt] Lord Rayleigh, FRS1 August 1924
NLB/64New Letter Book volume 64, copy letters sent from Royal Society administration19 January 1923-11 July 1923
NLB/57New Letter Book volume 57, copy letters sent from Royal Society administration27 June 1919-27 February 1920
MDA/A/9Correspondence of William Henry Bragg1935-1940
RR/32/20Referee's report by William Henry Bragg, on a paper 'The configuration of the carbon atom' by W Barlow13 January 1925
MDA/C/9/9Correspondence on the Foulerton Studentship held by Howard William Copland Vines1922-1927
MDA/C/9/8Correspondence on the Foulerton Professorship held by Ernest Henry Starling1922-1928
CD/99/8Letter from William Henry Bragg, Rosehurst, Grosvenor Road, Leeds, to [Robert] Harrison3 August 1912
MS/603/1/126Letter from W H [William Henry] Bragg, A.S.D., Admiralty, to Sir J [Joseph] Larmor, St. John's College, Cambridge13 August 1918
MS/603/1/129Letter from W H [William Henry] Bragg, Rosehurst, Grosvenor Road, Leeds, to [Joseph] Larmor10 January n.y.
MS/603/1/131Letter from W H [William Henry] Bragg, Great Northern Hotel, King's Cross Station, London, to [Joseph] Larmorn.d. [1922?]
MS/603/1/132Letter from W H [William Henry] Bragg, Sea Cot, Bigbury on Sea, South Devon, to [Joseph] Larmor15 August [1922?]
RR/68/121Second letter from William Henry Bragg, to Alfred Charles Glyn Egerton, regarding three papers, 'Extra reflexions from the two types of diamond' by Kathleen Yardley Lonsdale, 'Reflexion and scattering of X-rays with change of frequency, I. Theoretical' and 'Reflexion and scattering of X-rays with change of frequency - II. Experimental' by Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman17 October 1941
RR/25/46Referee's report by William Henry Bragg, on a paper 'On the velocities of two distinct groups of secondary corpuscular rays produced by a homogeneous Rontgen radiation, and their absorption coefficients in various gases' by Lewis Simons4 January 1919
RR/26/37Referee's report by William Henry Bragg, on a paper 'The atomic process in ferromagnetic Induction' by James Alfred Ewing[May 1921]
RR/26/74Referee's report by William Henry Bragg, on a paper 'On electro-crystalline properties as conditioned by atomic lattices' by Joseph Larmor[February 1921]
RR/32/21Second referee's report by William Henry Bragg, on a paper 'The configuration of the carbon atom' by W Barlow3 May 1925
RR/45/42Referee's report by William Henry Bragg, on a paper 'On the reflection and refraction of X-Rays by perfect crystals' by G W Brindleynd [January 1933]
RR/54/54Referee's report by William Henry Bragg, on a paper 'The formation and constitution of crystals of lead salts containing water-soluble colloid' by F D MilesJune 1935
RR/68/120Letter from William Henry Bragg, to Alfred Charles Glyn Egerton, regarding two papers 'Reflexion and scattering of X-rays with change of frequency, I. Theoretical' and 'Reflexion and scattering of X-rays with change of frequency - II. Experimental' by Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman24 September 1941
RR/68/122Letter from Kathleen Yardley Lonsdale, to William Henry Bragg, regarding three papers, 'Extra reflexions from the two types of diamond' by Kathleen Yardley Lonsdale, 'Reflexion and scattering of X-rays with change of frequency, I. Theoretical' and 'Reflexion and scattering of X-rays with change of frequency - II. Experimental' by Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman18 September 1941
RR/47/127Referee's report by William Henry Bragg, on a paper 'The geometry of the siliceous skeletons of the radiolaria' by D'Arcy Wentworth ThompsonMay 1932
MS/603/1/130Letter from W H [William Henry] Bragg, Rosehurst, Grosvenor Road, Leeds, to [Joseph] Larmor30 December n.y.
MC/26/32Letter from [William Henry] Bragg, The University, Leeds, to Mr [Robert] Harrison, the [Royal Society]31 May 1911
MC/28/24Letter from [William Henry] Bragg, The University, Leeds, to the Assistant ecretary, The Royal Society, London3 June 1913
MC/28/25Letter from [William Henry] Bragg, Rosehurst, Grosvenor Road, Leeds, to Mr [Robert] Harrison, [Royal Society]4 June 1913
MC/30/28Letter from [William Henry] Bragg, Rough House, Cottage Road, Headingley, to [Arthur Schuster], [Royal Society]28 February 1915
MC/30/29Letter from [William Henry] Bragg, The University, Leeds, to Mr [Robert] Harrison, [Royal Society]May 1915
MC/21/356Letter from Horace Lamb, 6 Wilbraham Road, Fallowfield, Manchester, to [Robert William Frederick] Harrison9 November 1906
MC/22/1Letter from [William Henry] Bragg, The University of Adelaide, to the Secretaries the Royal Society6 June 1906
MC/32/32Letter from [William Henry] Bragg, Admiralty Experimental Station, Parkeston Quay, Harwich, to [Robert] Harrison, [Royal Society]11 October 1917
MC/32/34Letter from [William Henry] Bragg, Admiralty Experimental Station, Parkeston Quay, Harwich, to [Robert] Harrison, [Royal Society]17 November 1917
MC/32/35Letter from [William Henry] Bragg, Admiralty Experimental Station, Parkeston Quay, Harwich, to The Assistant Secretary, The Royal Society, Burlington House, London26 November 1917
MC/22Volume 22 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1907
MC/34/13Letter from [William Henry] Bragg, University of London, University College, Gower Street, London, W.C.1., to The Secretary of the Royal Society, Burlington House, Piccadilly, W.1.31 March 1919
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