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The Solvay Science Project

William Lawrence Bragg (1890-1971)

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In 1927 William Lawrence Bragg is invited to present a report on the intensity of X-ray reflection (an aspect of light’s undulatory character). In 1947 he is elected president of the Scientific Committee of the International Solvay Institute for Physics, succeeding Hendrik Lorentz and Paul Langevin.

Note that William Henry Bragg, his father, is a member of the Scientific Committee of the IIPS from 1920 to 1927.