Developed by William Henry Bragg (1862-1942), a professor of physics based in Leeds, England, this X-ray spectrometer was used by him and his son William Lawrence Bragg (1890-1971) to investigate the structure of crystals. [1][2]
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The first X-ray spectrometer designed by Sir William Lawrence Bragg (1890-1971), a physicist at Cambridge University. He was the first to show in 1921 that molecular structure could be deduced from the pattern of diffraction of X-rays by a crystal sample.
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